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From: carl@quad1.quad.com (Carl Priddy)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Getting the position (absolute) of a window
Keywords: Position,Absolute,Window
Message-ID: <15307@gouda.quad.com>
Date: 3 Oct 90 18:57:20 GMT
Organization: Quadratron Systems Inc, Thousand Oaks Ca
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Hey out there:
	I have a DrawingArea Widget which is the work area of a main window.
	The main window is a child of an application shell. I need to get
	the top left corner position of the Drawing Area relative to the
	root window, in order to position a popup menu (with XmMenuPosition)
	to a particular location within it. XmMenuPosition (naturally) does
	not accept window-relative positioning, but requires the user to
	compute and set x_root and y_root (yes, this IS another of those 
	"convenience" functions!). The problem I am seeing is that
	XGetGeometry returns 0 for both the x and y positions for ALL of the
	windows between DrawingArea and root. Using XtGetValues is no better.
	Can anyone shed some light on this?
	
Thanks a heap,
carl.