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From: mike@BACH.CS.BYU.EDU (Mike Burbidge)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Problem trying to avoid visible resize of window hierarchy.
Message-ID: <9006111719.AA03968@bach.cs.byu.edu>
Date: 11 Jun 90 17:19:53 GMT
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I would like to avoid the annoying flicker of resizing widgets a the time a
widget tree is created. I am using the Motif widget set with the following
widget hierarchy:

applicationShellWidget
	dialogShellWidget
		selectionBoxWidget
			bulletinBoardWidget
				drawingAreaWidget

I have tried setting XmNmappedWhenManaged to False for each widget, then
managing the widget directly after creation and then mapping each widget at
the bottom. I still get resize flicker. Why?

The only way I have found to get rid of the resize flicker is to manage
each widget after the tree is created and manage them in bottom up order.
This causes problems with a our model for a toolkit we are building on top
of Motif.

Mike Burbidge
mike@bach.cs.byu.edu