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From: koff@hpfcbig.SDE.HP.COM (Caroline Koff)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: interactive placement of pop-ups & precendence of main app window
Message-ID: <12110005@hpfcbig.SDE.HP.COM>
Date: 8 Apr 91 17:02:44 GMT
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Skip Montanaro (montnaro@spyder.crd.ge.com) writes:
> Unfortunately, all dialog pop-ups come up initially smack dab in the middle
> of the main window. I've read through the mwm and FormDialog (and
> superclasses) man pages and can't find any resource that seems to control
> this behavior. Where am I going wrong?

Try setting the XmNdefaultPosition to False when you create the dialog
boxes, as in XtSetArg(args[i], XmNdefaultPosition, False).  Then to
position your dialog boxes on your own, use XtMoveWidget call.

--Caroline Koff