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From: kit@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Chris D. Peterson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Athena Form widget question
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Date: 26 Jul 89 16:13:15 GMT
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> So, looking at Form.c I found GeometryManager() to be rather
> simple and decided to look around.  Why doesn't the Form's
> GeometryManager *ever* ask its parent wheather a specific resize
> is appropriate?

Because it is stupid?  Actually its geometry manager is just not
clever enough, sigh.

> I thought XtCWQueryOnly was supposed to prevent this nonsense?!

It would, but the widget has to listen to QueryOnly, and since the shell has
been around longer than QueryOnly...  In any case this is a known problem in 
the shell widget.

					Chris