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From: meo@stiatl.UUCP (Miles O'Neal)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Athena Widget and XtDestroyWidget.
Message-ID: <9663@stiatl.UUCP>
Date: 10 Apr 90 15:27:49 GMT
Organization: Sales Technologies Inc.  Atlanta, Ga.
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otskov@iesd.auc.dk (Thim Otskov) writes:
|When creating (XtCreateManagedWidget) and destroying (XtDestroyWidget)
|the same widget more than once, the application program starts
|growing in size. This phenomenon only applies to composite widgets,
|simple widgets are allocated and deallocated properly.
|
|The application is running under both X11R3 and X11R4.
|
|Has anybody seen this before? And are there a patch fixing this little
|`growth` problem?

We had similar problems. They were much more exaggerated under the BETA and
FCS version of SunOS 4.0.0 for the 386i; things got much better with 4.0.2.

Also, however, we made sure every widget cleaned up after itself with a
Destroy method. While there can still be problems even with this, we have
found it to help a lot. I don't remember the details, but we even twiddled
the Athena widgets themselves, in addition to our own Athena-based widgets.
(The latter was under R2 and maybe R3 - we are not at R4 yet.)

-Miles O'Neal
meo@SalesTech.com
emory!stiatl!meo

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