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From: lindholm@greve.ucs.ubc.ca (George Lindholm)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: placing widgets?
Message-ID: <8850@ubc-cs.UUCP>
Date: 23 Jul 90 03:03:17 GMT
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Reply-To: lindholm@greve.ucs.ubc.ca (George Lindholm)
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In article <26394@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>, scott@graft.Berkeley.EDU (Scott
Silvey) writes:
|> lindholm@greve.ucs.ubc.ca (George Lindholm) writes:
|> |> I have a form widget that contains two viewport widgets side-by-side.
|> Below the
. . . (deleted)
|> #include <X11/Intrinsic.h>
|> #include <X11/StringDefs.h>
|> #include <X11/Xaw/Form.h>
|> #include <X11/Xaw/Label.h>
. . . (deleted)

Let me try again (I know I shouldn't have tried simplifying it). Given
the following
layout:

+---------------------------------form---------------------------------+
|            +------+                              +------+            |
|            |Menu 1|                              |Menu 2|            |
|            +------+                              +------+            |
| +----------viewport----------+-+ +-+ +-+---------viewport----------+ |
| |                            |S| |S| |S|                           | |
| |                            |c| |c| |c|                           | |
| |                            |r| |r| |r|                           | |
| |                            |o| |o| |o|                           | |
| |                            |l| |l| |l|                           | |
| |                            |l| |l| |l|                           | |
| |                            |b| |b| |b|                           | |
| |                            |a| |a| |a|                           | |
| |                            |r| |r| |r|                           | |
| |                            |1| |2| |3|                           | |
| +----------------------------+-+ +-+ +-+---------------------------+ |
| |viewport scrollbar          |         | viewport scrollbar        | |
| +----------------------------+         +---------------------------+ |
|                      +-------++-------++-------+                     |
|                      |Button1||Button2||Button3|                     |
|                      +-------++-------++-------+                     | 
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+

How do I put the following constraints on the widgets during resizing?:
 1) Keep the vertical scrollbars from changing their width while still
allowing them
	to become taller or shorter?

 2) Keep the menu widgets and button (command) widgets in their relative
positions
	without changing their size?
	

I can do most of it by using three form widgets inside the outer form widget
(plus XtMoveWidget). This would take care of the menus and Button1 and
Button3 but I
still can't prevent scrollbar2 and button2 from growing/shrinking as the
window is
resized.

If I use XtResizeWidget on scrollbar2, is there any way to get the form widget
to move the other widgets around based on the new size without changing
scrollbar2
behind my back?

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