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From: asente@adobe.com (Paul Asente)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: SLOWWWWWWW Popups
Message-ID: <7926@adobe.UUCP>
Date: 2 Nov 90 20:55:25 GMT
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In article <1220@esacs.UUCP> nick@esacs.UUCP (Nick Tsivranidis) writes:
>	Yes, but the problem is that dialogs are (usually) modal
>	boxes and the 'parent' widget is very important (if you want
>	the dialog centered on the window that produced it). Since
>	reparenting a widget is not a smart idea, one is stuck
>	with the Create/Destroy mechanism (which as you point out
>	doesn't work right).
>
>	This is yet another indication that 'something' was not
>	well designed in this X11/Xt/Xm world we live in. But,
>	such is life....

In this case, what is wrong is your understanding of how popups work
in Xt.  The parent of a popup widget is not like the parent of a regular
widget; the popup child's window is not a child of the parent's window.

Any widget can cause any popup widget to appear; it doesn't have to be the
parent.  You can move or resize a popup when you pop it up by using the
XtNpopupCallback resource.

	-paul asente
		asente@adobe.com	...decwrl!adobe!asente