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From: kit@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Chris D. Peterson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: help: getting label widget to resize
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Date: 12 Sep 89 17:09:54 GMT
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> I have an application that uses a label widget. I am setting the bitmap to
> various different bitmaps of different sizes. I am unable to get the widget
> to change its size when I do this. I tried explicitly setting the XtNheight
> and width parameters. How do I do this?

Most likely your problem is not the Label widget, but the parent of the Label
widget.  The toolkit model for geometry management is that the parent must
approve of any geometry request made by its children.  Take another look at 
the parent, it is probabally disallowing the Label's geometry requests.


						Chris D. Peterson     
						MIT X Consortium 

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