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From: rlh2@ukc.ac.uk (Richard Hesketh)
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Subject: Re: mapping multiple (independent) athena widgets
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Date: 28 Jul 90 08:24:29 GMT
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In article <_Z3$!T%@rpi.edu> pattersw@cs.rpi.edu (William Patterson) writes:

>I am trying to display 2 independent sets of widgets (i.e. both are
>direct children of the root widget).  However, when
>XtRealizeWidget(rootWidget) is called, only one of the children is
>mapped.

To quote page 66 of the Intrinsics manual (section 5.2):

	"None of the Intrinsics-supplied pop-shells (sic) will
	 simultaneously manage more than one child."

So that is why you will only ever see one managed widget.  Worse than
that this one widget is always the same size as the shell it is stuck
in (either the size as defined by the widget or as defined by the size of
the shell if it is set).   To get around this you must place the two
labels in a composite parent whose parent is the shell, a box or a form
will do.

If you want to display a widget directly you should create it *unmanaged*
and then do an explicit XtMapWidget().  I don't think you'll want to do
that in this case though.

>Bill Patterson
>pattersw@turing.cs.rpi.edu

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