Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!airgun!lampshir
From: lampshir@airgun.wg.waii.com (gregory b. lampshire)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Ignore my last posting, read this one...
Keywords: MOTIF
Message-ID: <863@airgun.wg.waii.com>
Date: 12 Jul 90 18:39:29 GMT
Organization: Western Geophysical, Houston
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Sorry about the last posting, it turns out that 
an include file that should have been included
wasn't, so I explicitly included it.  My only
gripe about setting the window decorations in MOTIF
is that you cannot turn of the menu button
without turning off other elements of the title
and border (Can someone prove me wrong, please?)

Here is a deeper question that should be straight-
forward.  How can I forcibly tell a message box
widget to resize itself before mapping?

What I have done is create a widget at startup
and would like to change the message and redisplay it.
Unfortunately, when I redisplay it with the new
message, the size of the widget is still governed
by the old label size.  I need to have the message
box resize itself (I do a poor job of resizing).  I have
tried setting XmmappedWhenManaged to FALSE, re-realizing
the widget after I have set the new message, then   
explicitly mapping the widget myself.  This approach 
does not seem to work.  Also, the label widget inside
the message box should auto resize (via a resource) but
this change does not seem to propagate up the widget tree.

Sorry about all the other messages lately, I am a new
X/MOTIF programmer and get hung up on some of the small
stuff.
 

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