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From: dbrooks@osf.org (David Brooks)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: Grey-ing things out
Message-ID: <1990Sep6.134148@osf.org>
Date: 6 Sep 90 17:41:48 GMT
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In article <7892@gollum.twg.com>, david@twg.com (David S. Herron) writes:
|> If I unmanage it, it goes away.  And then, because it's in an XmForm,
|> the screen repositions itself and it looks kinda ugly.

To avoid this repositioning, use XtUnmap instead of XtUnmanageChild.

|> 
|> "greying" is preferable.  It's a widely used metaphor to indicate
|> something which currently isn't available.  etc.

Agreed.
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