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From: marbru@auto-trol.UUCP (Martin Brunecky)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Does Xtk allow widget reparenting
Message-ID: <1168@auto-trol.UUCP>
Date: 30 May 90 16:25:03 GMT
References: <HAM.90May25100901@Neon.Stanford.EDU> <9005291803.AA20292@expo.lcs.mit.edu>
Reply-To: marbru@auto-trol.UUCP (Martin Brunecky)
Organization: Auto-trol Technology, Denver
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In article <9005291803.AA20292@expo.lcs.mit.edu> kit@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Chris D. Peterson) writes:
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>> Off the top of my head, I thought that Xtk allows widget reparenting,
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>No.  
>
>As a previous poster stated there are ways to hack around this restriction, but
>you really don't want to.  The major problem comes in the area of resources. 
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   Plus think about constraint widgets, where the constraint record
   is defined by the parent. How do you create a new one when reparenting
   to a constraint widget ?
  
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