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From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Motif Form widget question
Message-ID: <1990Jun6.160009.24110@alphalpha.com>
Date: 6 Jun 90 16:00:09 GMT
References: <1990Jun1.205443.5062@Solbourne.COM>
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In article <1990Jun1.205443.5062@Solbourne.COM> toml@ninja.Solbourne.COM (Tom LaStrange) writes:
>I'm trying to learn this Motif thing and I'm cutting my teeth on
>the Form widget.  I want to create a Form widget and have three 
You *really* don't want to cut your teeth on the Form widget.  It's
much better for pulling them out.

>If I create the children in the order A,B,C and attach B to A and C to B,
>everything works fine.  If I create them in the order C,B,A and attach B
>to C and A to B, then the Form widget does not appear to size properly
>to hold all the children.  All I see is C unless I resize the thing.
>
>Is this a "feature" of the form widget that I haven't read about

The problem with the Form widget is that it doesn't backtrack.
It places the first thing and then goes forward from there.  It
can extend itself down as new things are added, and it can extend
itself to the right.  However to extend left or up it would have
to go back and change all the previous widget coordinates to be in
new locations - and it doesn't.  I've tried making the modification
myself, but I can't seem to get it to work.

I'm not sure if you'd call that a bug or a feature, but it certainly
should be changed.

I have a Table widget from David Harrison at UCBerkeley that I have
partially Motifized and that I find to be much more useful than
Form, for doing much the same things.  I'll be putting this out
on the net sometime in the few weeks (after Usenix).

						-kee

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