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Subject: form dialog resizes itself when I change a button label.
Keywords: using IBM RS/6000 & C++; X11-R3 & Motif 1.0
Message-ID: <1991Jun20.015841.7418@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>
Date: 20 Jun 91 01:58:41 GMT
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I have a Form Dialog which contains a scrolled window and four Push-Buttons
on the bottom.  All widgets are attached with ATTACH_POSITION for all four
sides.

Everything is in a C++ Class, and each button has a callBack.  For one button,
I need to toggle the type of data I display and toggle the XmNlabelString to
show the other state that another click will toggle to.  Sounds simple, right?

Well, I'm able to change the label - with XmStringCreate and XtSetArg &
XtSetValues - but the window height & width shrinks with every button click!
I am totally baffled.  It makes no difference whether the window is empty or
contains data.  The darn thing keeps shrinking with every click until the
whole thing is too small to focus on the buttons.  Could this have anything to
do with the fact that I'm changing a resource for the widget that's being
passed to the callBack?

Any hints or suggestions?

Thank you,
Wayne Scott
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