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From: argv@turnpike.Eng.Sun.COM (Dan Heller)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: Moving motif widgets
Message-ID: <144249@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 26 Oct 90 03:05:14 GMT
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In article <1073@dcl-vitus.comp.lancs.ac.uk> andy@dcl-cs.UUCP (Andy Colebourne) writes:
> I want to use motif to have a window containing a number of widgets that
> can be moved around using the mouse.

I assume you're allowing the user to interactively drag a widget around
inside of its parent?

> I have tried:
> [1] unmanage the widget
> [2] set the resources for the position (XmNx, XmNy) using XtSetValues
> [3] manage the widget

Why are you unmanaging the widget?  Just do [2] and it should work.

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