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From: lynnes@ALEX.CSS.GOV (Christopher Lynnes)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: how to position popups
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Date: 4 Feb 91 20:58:57 GMT
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>I am using Wcl with Motif 1.1, and am having problems specifying 
>the location of popups. My current approach is:
>
>1. set the x and y resources of the popup using WcSetValueCB
>
>2. Use WcPopupCB to display the popup
>
>Setting the x and y resources does not seem to have an effect on 
>the default behavior which seems to be to center the popup on
>the current cursor location.

	If your popup is a subclass of XmBulletinBoard (as are the Motif
dialogs), then the XmNdefaultPosition resource is probably controlling
your popup position: when set to True (the default) the popup is centered
over the parent of the popup. If you set it to False, the x and y relative
to the root window coordinates will generally be used, though I don't
think that is guaranteed. 

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