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From: carl@quad1.quad.com (Carl Priddy)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: bad size default for the XmForm widget
Summary: Motif form widget sizing
Message-ID: <13995@gouda.quad.com>
Date: 12 Jul 90 16:22:52 GMT
References: <1990Jul11.165130.3364@bmc.uu.se>
Organization: Quadratron Systems Inc, Thousand Oaks Ca
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The form widget provides a couple of interesting ways of ensuring that
everything is visible and in the geometry that you desire. Using the 
XmNxxxAttachment resource as Xm_ATTACH_FORM, you can specify attachments
to the sides of the form itself. Using it as Xm_ATTACH_WIDGET, you can 
attach the "inside" widgets to each other. I used the XmATTACH_FORM for
the attachments, and then used the XmNxxxOffset resource to specify the top
and left offsets within the form. I did this because I have no a priori 
knowledge of how many children the Form will have, or what their sizes are.
The form changes size to accomodate it's children.
carl priddy