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From: martin.chavez@quorum.com (R. Martin Chavez)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Resizing XmDrawingArea.
Message-ID: <9103190505.AA14176@yaya.>
Date: 19 Mar 91 05:05:40 GMT
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I have a drawingArea widget that is the workWindow of a mainWindow
widget (set via XmMainWindowSetAreas).  The mainWindow and the
drawingArea are correctly instantiated; the drawingArea is created as
the child of the mainWindow and managed.  I now want to change the size
of the drawingArea, and I'd like the mainWindow to grow automatically as
necessary.

I tried simply doing an XtSetValues on XmNwidth and XmNheight for the
drawingArea widget; the widget stayed at its old size.  Then, I tried
XtMakeResizeRequest(drawing_area, width, height, NULL, NULL); I got
an XtGeometryDone reply, but the widget still didn't increase its size.
Does anybody know what I'm doing wrong?

I can get a resize to happen by doing an XtSetValues on the mainWindow
widget itself, but it's the drawingArea child that I'd like to resize
directly, since I don't know the dimensions of the mainWindow's menuPane
and separator.

Regards,
R. Martin Chavez
Quorum Software Systems, Inc.