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From: swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph R. Swick)
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Subject: Re: need help creating a widget with a Widget field
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Date: 18 Aug 89 21:59:19 GMT
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>  I want to have a VPaned Widget within my
> Widget and any child widgets will be inserted into the Vpaned Widget.

Who is creating the children?  If your widget is creating them, then
it should specify the VPaned as the parent; if an external source is
creating them, then you'll have to be really careful trying to
splice the VPaned into the hierarchy.  It's not impossible, but
it's also not necessarily encouraged.

There are no examples in Xaw of a widget which splices the hierarchy.
The Dialog widget both creates some children automatically and
handles children created by the application; you might learn something
from it.