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From: drk@twinkie.Rational.COM (David Kaelbling)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Non-standard scrollbar placement
Keywords: Scrollbar,placement,question
Message-ID: <823@igor.Rational.COM>
Date: 16 Jan 91 20:31:37 GMT
Sender: news@Rational.COM
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One of my users wants a non-standard window layout, and I don't know
a good way to do it.  We want something like this:

	+-----------------------------------+
	|	      Menu bar		    |
	+---+---------------------------+---+
	| P |				| S |
	| a |				| c |
 	| l |				| r |
	| e |	      Work Area		| o |
	| t |				| l |
	| t |				| l |
	| e |				|   |
	+---+----+----------------------+---+
	| Button |	Scroll bar	|   |
	+--------+----------------------+---+

Note that the horizontal scroll bar isn't the same width as the work
area.  XmAUTOMATIC behavior is desired, although it doesn't strictly
need to be implemented that way.

My first idea was that all the widgets could be peers in a big happy
XmForm, but XmScrolledWindow suggests that the scroll bars need to be
its children.  Life without all the built-in XmScrolledWindow
functionality would be very painful.

My second idea was to try explicit XtSetValues() calls on the position
and size of the scroll bar, but the code in XmScrolledWindow doesn't
look very promising for that either.

My third idea was to find something the Style guide that said this
was a no-no, but I couldn't.

Is there an easy way out of this?  Maybe one of the approaches
mentioned isn't as difficult as it looks?  Maybe I missed the
obvious solution?  I haven't tried coding all the permutations, but
rather am hoping somebody in netland has already solved this problem.

	Thanks in advance,
	David
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David Kaelbling                                       (408) 496-3600
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