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From: argv@turnpike.Eng.Sun.COM (Dan Heller)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: Help with application positioning (follow-up)
Message-ID: <141100@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 22 Aug 90 01:44:43 GMT
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In article <5792@adobe.UUCP> asente@adobe.com (Paul Asente) writes:
> In article <141019@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> argv@turnpike.Eng.Sun.COM (Dan Heller) writes:
> >Use the XtNgeometry resource.  Thus, instead of:
> >> 	XtSetArg(args[i],XmNheight,750); i++;
> >> 	XtSetArg(args[i],XmNwidth,750); i++;
> >> 	XtSetArg(args[i],XmNx,0); i++;
> >> 	XtSetArg(args[i],XmNy,0); i++;
> >Use:
> >> 	XtSetArg(args[i], XtNgeometry, "750x750+0+0"); i++;

> This is a Very Very bad thing to do.  Not on the same level as committing
> serial axe murders, but bad nonetheless.  Here's why:

Your explanation was good, and I take blame for not having made this
absolutely clear when I made the above statements. *however*:

> Now, why should you as a programmer feel obliged not to lie with the window
> manager?  If you do this, there's no longer any way for a user who *wants*
> interactive position to get it.

This is *presicely* why I made the suggestion.  The poster was requesting
help in knowing exactly how to do that.  I was just answering his question.
--
dan
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