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From: stan@b17b.INGR.COM (Stan Hardy)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: XmScrolledWindow
Message-ID: <452@b17b.INGR.COM>
Date: 19 Aug 90 17:02:30 GMT
References: <9030@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu>
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In article <9030@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu>, john@quonset.cfht.hawaii.edu (John Kerr) writes:
# I have a scrolled window that is the parent of a draw area widget.  I
# have chosen to make the scrollingPolicy AUTOMATIC and let my drawing
# have that smooth scrolling effect.  The problem I am having currently,
# is that I would like to be notified of a scroll event, as mentioned in
# the reference manual, but I can't seem to retrieve the scrollbar
# widgets' ID.  I tried to get the ID as follows:
# 
#     XtSetArg (myArgs[0], XmNhorizontalScrollBar, &wid);
#     XtGetValues (XtParent(graphAreaWid), myArgs, 1);
# 
# When executed, the widget ID (wid) comes back 0.  Any ideas
# or suggestions?  
# 

Use XtParent(XtParent(graphAreaWid)).  The parent of your drawing area is
actually the clip window of the scrolled window.  The clip window's parent
is the scrolled window, which contains the XmNhorizontalScrollBar resource.

# Thanks,
# 
# jk
# 
# 
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