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From: gerday@shell.COM
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: reparenting a gadget
Message-ID: <9012172352.AA01982@palm.ic.shell.com>
Date: 17 Dec 90 23:52:36 GMT
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I'm forwarding this for a friend, please reply to me (or post if your
answer is of general interest). 

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I am writing an OSF/Motif constraint widget (subclassed from XmManager)
that has three separate scrollable areas (the constraints determine
where to put the children). I have created three work areas under the
constraint widget that will be used to display the application added
children.  I use the XReparentWindow function to redirect the output of
the children to one of the three work areas.  This works correctly for
widgets.  However; I have a problem with OSF/Motif gadgets.  I was
hoping the gadgets had a field in its instance structure that contains
the window ID and I would be able to change this field.  This guess was
incorrect.  I am trying to implement behavior similar to the X11R3
Athena viewport widget (the children of the viewport widget are window
reparented to the clip window).  How does the X11R4 Athena viewport
widget handle window reparenting gadgets?

I do not want to reparent the widget/gadget instance tree.  Does anyone
have any suggestions on how I can reparent the window ID of a gadget?

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Jan Gerday	    << C'etait chouette... on a bien rigole! >>
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