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From: nazgul@alfalfa.com (Kee Hinckley)
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Subject: Re: help:  can't really unmap with XmNmappedWhenManaged
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Date: 18 Mar 91 19:17:49 GMT
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> What advantages are there to having a widget managed, yet unmapped?

You can get it up on the screen considerably faster since all the geometry
calculations have already been done.

I compromise.  I don't try to create them unmapped, instead I let them be
a little slow the first time, but cache the dialogs, so that subsequent
requests are instantaneous (so to speak).  This also has the advantage that
I don't waste time (and memory) creating dialogs that the user doesn't use.

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I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.