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From: rlh2@ukc.ac.uk (Richard Hesketh)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: R5 wish list
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Date: 28 Jul 90 09:08:38 GMT
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In article <5677@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM> mayer@hplabs.hp.com (Niels Mayer) writes:
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>The R5 Xtoolkit should give warnings when an invalid resource is accessed.
>

While we are on the subject of warning generation in Xt;  I would very
much like to see atleast one error message to be changed to a warning message
instead (and thus not causing the application to die).
The error I am thinking of is ...

		"Widget blah has zero width and/or height"

This hurts my user interface builder; when a widget is to be created and
does not calculate a default window size,  I would like to be graciously
informed of this via a Warning which I can ignore (I don't mind if the window
is given a 1x1 size).  I just don't want my builder falling over from a
silly Error that can be dealt with simply.

The hand-waving and arm bending I have to do to stop this Error and yet
still allow widgets to calculate their own default sizes is nasty.

Thanks for listening, I'll get back to my documentation (yuk) now 8-).

Richard