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From: meeks@osf.org (W. Scott Meeks)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: Too many resizes in Motif 1.1
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Date: 21 Jan 91 18:50:42 GMT
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>From: timbuk!shamash!hare.udev.cdc.com!slc1290@uunet.uu.net  (steve chesney x4662)
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>We are running Motif 1.1 and notice what appear to be too many resize events.
>For example, the application consists of an application shell which has as 
>children a bulletin board (with pushbuttons) and a transient shell which has
>a menu bar and workspace.  If a resize is forced on the application shell due
>to changing widgets inside it, the transient shell resizes even though it does
>not need to.  Has anyone else seen this?

"Unnecessary" resize events is a know problem in Motif.  Part of the
problem is caused by the complexity of geometry management in Xt and the
fact that sometimes a widget may not be able to tell for certain that it's
parent resized it so that it has to resize itself.  We're working to clean
up geometry management in Motif.  I haven't heard of your particular case
before, but we'll add it to our list of cases to investigate.  Thanks for
the report.

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