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From: marg@CUNIXF.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Margarita Suarez)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: help with athena widgets
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Date: 13 Dec 89 21:42:46 GMT
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thanks for your reply...i've gotten my program to do mostly what i want.
what i ended up doing is setting XtNoverrideRedirect to True for a
topLevelShell widget, and this overrides the window manager and also
allows me to specify values for XtNx and XtNy, etc.

the problem with the translation table is solved, but i did have to
place the line
	{ "select-start", NULL },
into my action table to trick the action parser into thinking it knew
where that routine was.  otherwise, i would get warnings from the parser
saying it didn't know that action.  since i was getting those warnings
before, i assumed that i had to put SelectStart in my action table, and
then it couldn't find that, etc.

is it true, then, that window manager like things (geometry, decoration)
for the toplevel widget (that created with XtInitialize) must be
modified only from the window manager end?

marg