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Subject: How do I center a widget inside an XmForm?
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Date: 5 Jun 91 21:28:26 GMT
Reply-To: rnewman@BBN.COM (Ron Newman)
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA
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I've been looking over the dazzling array of attachment options
available in XmForm, but I can't figure out how to position a
child widget (a Label, for instance) in either of the following ways:

   - attach the CENTER of the widget to the CENTER of the form, in
        either the x or y dimensions (or both)

   - attach it to an adjoining widget (say, a Button) so that the 
        CENTER of the Button touches the CENTER of the Label

The XmATTACH_WIDGET, XmATTACH_FORM, and XmATTACH_OPPOSITE_WIDGET all
seem to force me to attach corners and edges, rather than centers.

The XmATTACH_POSITION option would let me center my Label (by
using the same value for both leftPosition and rightPosition), but 
then I get a label that grows and shrinks as the form grows or shrinks.
I want a label that stays the same size but whose location changes
so that it remains in the center.

/Ron Newman		rnewman@bbn.com
Ron Newman		rnewman@bbn.com