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From: converse@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU
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Subject: Re: Need help porting from R2 to R4
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Date: 20 Dec 90 18:48:17 GMT
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> The first problem (I am assuming that there will be more ...) is we build a 
> dialog, at somepoint we relize it, find out how big it is and then pop it up 
> in the center of the screen.

> We rely quite heavily on the ability to relize a widget (unmapped) get its 
> size and then do positioning.  The mechanism, of polling our creations for 
> their size, seems to be not working in many cases.


It might help to take a look at R4 xmh code, specifically, the file popup.c