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From: kumorek@APOLLO.COM (James Kumorek)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Popup dialogue box question
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Date: 21 Aug 90 14:51:47 GMT
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Hi,

I'm currently involved with writing a new Motif UI for our debugger.  In
implementing popup dialog boxes, I've encountered a problem that I would
like to know how othershave solved.

I've based my dialog boxes on the form dialog.  My problem is that I have
to explicitely specify the size of the form widgets to be the appropriate
size.  However, if the font being used gets changed, all the forms widgets 
will be the wrong size.

Also, with our current method of creating the form contents (a somewhat 
mechanical one, in order to facilitate teh creation of the ~ 100+ popups)
we don't completely attach all the widgets in the form.  It looks fine
when it first comes up, but if the user tries to resize it, the layout
does not remain asthetically pleasing.

My question is, what have other developers done in this situation, and what 
do the users expect to be able to do?  Is changing the fonts of the dialog
boxes required?  Do users really need to be able to arbitrarily resize the 
dialog boxes?  Does anyone care? :->

Thanks in advance for your opinions and your help.

        - Jim

Jim Kumorek
Apollo Computer, Inc. - A subsidiary of Hewlett Packard
kumorek@apollo.hp.com

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