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From: cflatter@ZIA.AOC.NRAO.EDU (Chris Flatters)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re:  XView questions......
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Date: 11 Oct 90 15:17:41 GMT
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Ken Johnson writes:

> I've created a frame which contains a panel and a canvas.  I want the
> panel to behave like an apple menubar.  SO far I've gotten the canvas working
> and two menu buttons in the panel.  The problem is that the panel/menubar
> is huge and make the window look like crap.  I tried window_fit on the
> panel and the frame and that doesn't help.  ANy suggestions to shrink the
> panel without having to hand code the size of the buttons and stuff?

The window_fit macro (actually window_fit_height is more appropriate here)
is equivalent to:

	xv_set (panel,
                WIN_FIT_HEIGHT, 0,
                WIN_FIT_WIDTH,  0,
                NULL);

the WIN_FIT attributes take the margin to leave around the window contents.
Zero is a special value which instructs XView to choose its own margin. It
seems rather conservative in doing this.  You should try setting
WIN_FIT_HEIGHT explicitly rather than using the macros. 

	xv_set (panel, 
                WIN_FIT_HEIGHT, 1,
                NULL)

will get you the narrowest possible panel.  The margins above and below the
buttons will be the same as for the OpenWindows file manager or mail tool.

			Chris Flatters