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From: ben@HPCVXBEN.CV.HP.COM (Benjamin Ellsworth)
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Subject: Re: Changing XmNrightOffset in a form widget
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Date: 17 Aug 90 16:47:13 GMT
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> Is there any way to avoid unmanaging and then managing the "Form" to
> change the XmNrightOffset resource?

Depends on the parent of the outer form.  My guess is that the offset
value is indeed being changed in the internal data structures, but when
the outer form tries to change size to accomodate the new values, its
parent says "No."  Hence no layout is performed.  I'd bet that if you
could jog size of the outer form you would see the layout you want.

I don't know of any neat work-arounds for this one in 1.0.  A sleazy
tactic that might work would be to call XtResizeWidget on the outer
form and resize it to its CURRENT (at the time of the call) size.

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