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From: garnaat@verdelak.xerox.com (Mitch Garnaat)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Shell sizing via -geometry
Keywords: widget shell Xt
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Date: 26 Mar 91 18:33:36 GMT
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I'm using OpenWindows 2.0 on a Sun4/110.  I have the following OLIT widget
hierarchy -
	BaseWindowShellWidget
		Form
			ControlArea
			ScrolledWindow
				Custom Widget
What I want is to have my Custom widget have a size of 1000x1000.  I then
want to scrolled window containing it to have a max width and max height of
1000 (these are the XtNviewWidth & XtNviewHeight resources).  However I want
my application base window to come up with whatever geometry the user passes
in on the command line via the -geometry command line option.

The Asente&Swick book states that the XtNgeometry resource of a Shell widget
"forces its [the shell's] child to this size".  When I use -geometry 600x400
on the command line, however, I still get a base window big enough to hold
a 1000x1000 scrolling window.  It seems to be ignoring the command line
option.

Any suggestions?

(mitch)
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Mitch Garnaat					Xerox Corp.
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