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From: rowan@ima.isc.com (Rowan Hawthorne)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: Dialog Box Actions
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Date: 14 Dec 90 18:31:06 GMT
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In article <19.2768a262@idicl1.idi.battelle.org>, grywalski@idicl1.idi.battelle.org writes:
|> 	Why does it take a trick to do this?  I have been trying to build
|> my own dialog boxes with UIL that have the same behavior as the Motif
|> standards, and have had little luck.  (The pushbuttons don't stretch correctly
|> and the nondefault buttons have the same height as the default button.)
|> I assumed I just hadn't stumbled on the the correct combination of parameters. 
|> I will be very disappointed if I can't generate a "standard Motif like" dialog
|> box with UIL.  Has anyone had any success with this?  If so could you post
|> an example?

The standard dialog boxes do explicit size calculations on the buttons,
and set the sizes and positions this way. I'm afraid you will be very
disappointed if you continue to do it any other way.

You could certainly do it in UIL, but you will have to calculate the
sizes yourself, and hard-code them. 

		Rowan

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