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From: kumorek@apollo.HP.COM (James Kumorek)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: Menu Bars
Message-ID: <4df75675.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM>
Date: 12 Nov 90 17:41:00 GMT
References: <1990Nov9.223934@eos.ncsu.edu>
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Apollo Division - Chelmsford, MA
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In article <1990Nov9.223934@eos.ncsu.edu>, ltlovett@eos.ncsu.edu (LANCE
TIMOTHY LOVETTE) writes:
|> 
|> I created a menu bar with XmCreateMenuBar.  On the bar I put a cascade 
|> button to drop a  pull down menu.  My problem is I want to have an 'about' 
|> PushButtonWidget on the bar so that when pressed it pops up a dialog box.
|> The program compiles and will run like I want, no problems, except for when
|> it first runs I get the message:
|> 
|>  X Toolkit Warning:
|>    Name: menu_bar
|>    Class: XmRowColumn
|>    Attempt to add wrong type child to a homogeneous RowColumn widget
|> 

Menu bars require that all the children of the menu bar be the same 'type'
of widget (or gadget).  To get around this problem, use a cascade button or
gadget for the button that will invoke the dialog box;  just don't set the
subMenuId resource.  It should then act just like a push button.


Jim Kumorek
Apollo Computer, Inc. - A subsidiary of Hewlett Packard
kumorek@apollo.hp.com