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From: converse@expo.lcs.mit.EDU
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Subject: Re: Help - resizing Athena widgets
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Date: 4 Jan 91 16:17:59 GMT
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> Could someone tell me how I might be able to resize [...]
> a  widget under a popup widget
> and have the popup widget resizing to fit all of these when
> necessary without having to go into the internals of widgets. 

The shell widget has a resource named XtNallowShellResize which you
should read about.  It must be set to True, or the shell will deny
resize requests from its child.

As for popups in general, there is an example in the MIT R4 release
in the examples/Xaw directory.


Donna Converse