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From: tbray@watsol.waterloo.edu (Tim Bray)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: need help with XmForm widget
Keywords: XmForm
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Date: 17 Dec 90 16:02:37 GMT
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bobh@eldar.WR.TEK.COM (Bob Heath (bobh@amadeus.LA.TEK.COM)) writes:
|I have an application which uses a Form widget...
|...  The Form widget, on the other hand,
|grows as I add rows of widgets, but it doesn't shrink when I unmanage them.
|...
|I'm running Motif 1.0 on a Sparc-station 1 with the NeWS server.

(replying by mail as this is likely of general interest)

Probably the best thing you could do would be to get Motif 1.1.  I was totally
unable to get form widgets to do what I wanted under 1.0, and resorted to
horribly kludgy rowcolumn with ad hoc resizing.  In 1.1, the Form code seems
to be *greatly* cleaned up, and acts more or less determistically.

Not guaranteeing it'll solve your problem, just advising you to stay away from
the 1.0 form widget.  You might also want to take a look at the table widget,
recently posted in one of these groups.

Tim Bray (tbray@watsol.waterloo.edu)