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From: paulb@siesoft.co.uk (Paul Bentley)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: "XmMainWindow/XmScrolledWindow size"
Message-ID: <1991Apr29.125822.24474@siesoft.co.uk>
Date: 29 Apr 91 12:58:22 GMT
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Organization: Siemens Nixdorf Systems Development Group, Reading UK
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I'm looking for a way of creating XmScrolledWindow and XmMainWindow
widgets and setting the size of the clip area explicitly.

The way I do this currently is by finding the size of the scrollbars
and various shadow and highlight metrics, calculating how much space
these take, then adding this to the width and height I want the clip area
to be when creating the widget. I'm not sure what the correct algorithm for
this is in all cases. Does anyone know ?

These calculations are very unpleasant and get even worse for an XmMainWindow
when message area and menu bar metrics also have to be accounted for.

This is a problem common to many applications. Is there an easy way
round this ?

Paul Bentley (paulb@siesoft.co.uk)
Siemens Nixdorf
Informations Systems Limited
Siemens Nixdorf House
Oldbury, Bracknell
Berkshire RG12 4FZ
England.