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From: bazavan@hpcilzb.HP.COM (Valentin Bazavan)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: Positioning dialogs, etc
Message-ID: <17100003@hpcilzb.HP.COM>
Date: 13 Nov 90 15:16:28 GMT
References: <108384@convex.convex.com>
Organization: HP Design Tech Center - Santa Clara, CA
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Here is an answer for your first question:

Set the XmNdefaultPosition to False when you create the dialog.
E.g.:
	n = 0;
	.
	.
	XtSetArg(args[n], XmNdefaultPosition, False); n++;
	Widget dialog = XmCreate<your>Dialog(parent, "blabla", args, n);

Then 
	Position x, y;
	/* get root-relative x and y coordinates of the parent */
	XtTranslateCoords(parent, 0, 0, &x, &y);
	/* move the dialog to the position you want relative to parent's x, y */
	XtMoveWidget(dialog, x+100, y-100);


Valentin Bazavan
vbazavan@hpdtc.hp.com