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From: pjs@aristotle.JPL.NASA.gov (Peter Scott)
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Subject: Radio box doesn't accept togglebuttons - why?
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Would someone explain to me the rationale for a RowColumn widget
created with XmCreateRadioBox only accepting ToggleButtonGadgets
as children, and not ToggleButtons?  This seems unnecessary
policing of the programmer; suppose I want to use ToggleButtons
so I can change the background and foreground colors in one of them,
for instance?  Sure, I could change the isHomogenous resource after
creating the RowColumn widget, or change the child type to ToggleButton,
but it just seems to be set up to be unnessarily irritating right now.

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