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From: krs0@GTE.COM (Rod Stephens)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: XmATTACH_OPPOSITE_FORM
Message-ID: <9805@bunny.GTE.COM>
Date: 28 Sep 90 12:24:04 GMT
References: <9009280016.AA05259@turnpike.Eng.Sun.COM>
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In article <9009280016.AA05259@turnpike.Eng.Sun.COM> <argv@Sun.COM> writes:
>I have yet to find a purpose for this value.  Can someone lend
>a hand?

I have used this to align 2 columns, one of labels and one of text. I
wanted the labels aligned on the left and the text aligned on the
right like:

      x = A		      x = B
	|			|
	V			V

	L1_____		T1_______
	L2________	  T2_____
	L3___	       T3________
	L4__________ T4__________

I got this by stuff like:

OBJECT label1 : XmLabel {
    ARGUMENTS {
	XmNleftAttachment	= XmATTACH_FORM;
	XmNleftOffset		= A;
    };
};
OBJECT text : XmText {
    ARGUMENTS {
	XmNrightAttachment	= XmATTACH_OPPOSITE_FORM;
	XmNrightOffset		= -B;
    };
};

Note the "-B". It took some stochastic programming (trial and error ;)
to figure this little feature out.

Of course there are undoubtably a zillion ways to get this to work but
I knew what "A" and "B" were so this was convenient.

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