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From: david@lta.lta.com (David B. Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Resizing XmDrawingArea.
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Date: 19 Mar 91 17:27:10 GMT
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> I tried simply doing an XtSetValues on XmNwidth and XmNheight for the
> drawingArea widget; the widget stayed at its old size.  Then, I tried

Applications should be using only XtSetValues() to change geometry, so you're
on the right track. 

MainWindow passes a chunk of its geometry management off to the ScrolledWindow;
that fails depending on whether or not the parent shell can resize 
(XtNallowShellResize = True) and probably on the scrollingPolicy.

> XtMakeResizeRequest(drawing_area, width, height, NULL, NULL); I got
> an XtGeometryDone reply, but the widget still didn't increase its size.

This is a widget-private function. (And it shouldn't ever return XtGeometryDone
anyway.)

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