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From: ral@HYDRA.JPL.NASA.GOV (Roger Lighty)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: MOTIF question: control placement of widgets
Message-ID: <9006121543.AA06507@hydra.jpl.nasa.gov>
Date: 12 Jun 90 15:43:43 GMT
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I presume you currently have some thing of the following
 (excuse the widget names as I don't have all of the MOTIF terminology down)

 parent form (bulletineboard ???)

	button 1
	button 2
	button 3
	...
	window M

If you add two more forms (bulletinboard, I told you I don't know MOTIF)

 parent form
	subform 1 (bulletineboard,rowcolumn,?)
		button 1
		button 2
		button 3
		button 4
		....
	subform 2
		window M

WHERE subform 1 just encompasses the row of buttons and subform 2 is everything
else.  Then M can never cover the buttons.
:

HOPE THIS HELPS

-- roger		ral@aristotle.jpl.nasa.gov