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From: lorensen@dwaskill.crd.ge.com (william e lorensen)
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Subject: Re: inserting large string into popped up text widget ... goes nuts
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Date: 3 Jan 91 22:05:26 GMT
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In-reply-to: cont1@tse.uucp's message of 3 Jan 91 02:22:40 GMT

In article <1991Jan3.022240.13828@tse.uucp> cont1@tse.uucp (Contractor #1 = Tim Horton) writes:

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   From: cont1@tse.uucp (Contractor #1 = Tim Horton)
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   Date: 3 Jan 91 02:22:40 GMT
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   Is there any way to avoid this? ...

   In motif 1.0, if a text widget is popped up, and I set it's string value
   to something relatively long, it *slowly* *gracelessly* resizes itself
   to accomodate the string.  For example, a scrolled text widget will go
   through the string value from top to bottom, figuring out the number of
   lines and the size of each line, and after *each* line it resets/redraws
   the scrollbars (or rather, the scrolling widget around the text widget
   gets a resize notification from the text widget after each line is processed,
   causing the scrollbars to be reset/redrawn each time).  Anyways...

   THIS IS RIDICULOUS.  From time to time I have a 400 line chunk of text to
   stuff in.  The behavior looks ridiculous, it takes a *minute* or so, and
   meanwhile the application is basically hung.  The code:

	XmTextSetString(myTextWidget, bigString);   /* wow! */

   Does this seem slightly bizarre to anyone else but me?  Is it time for me
   to turn in my .Xdefaults, for good?  Is there really a higher bitplane?
   When you can't have X anymore, is there anything left to life?

   For these and other answers, thanks in advance,
   tjhorton@vis.toronto.edu
   (alias cont1@tse.uucp)

Try:
	XtUnManageChild (myTextWidget);
	XmTextSetString(myTextWidget, bigString);   /* wow! */
	XtManageChild (myTextWidget);
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