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From: dwight@geohub.gcn.uoknor.edu (Dwight D. Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: Scale Widget Sizing Problem
Message-ID: <1991Apr15.092549@geohub.gcn.uoknor.edu>
Date: 15 Apr 91 14:27:45 GMT
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I had the same problem, I solved this by making sure the container widget (the
scale widget's
parent) was as wide as was needed to set the scaleWidth.  I found this a little
annoying since
you would think the the geometry negotiation between the parent and child would
handle
this.
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                                Dwight D. Moore
                         Geosciences Computing Network
                            University of Oklahoma

                  dwight@geohub.gcn.uoknor.edu (129.15.40.10)
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