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Subject: Re: form dialog resizes itself when I change a button label.
Summary: setting XmNrecomputeSize to FALSE solves the problem for me!
	 Thanks to Andrew Wason for leading me to this solution.
Keywords: using IBM RS/6000 & C++; X11-R3 & Motif 1.0
Message-ID: <1991Jun20.153013.11832@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>
Date: 20 Jun 91 15:30:13 GMT
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> Well, I'm able to change the label - with XmStringCreate and XtSetArg &
> XtSetValues - but the window height & width shrinks with every button click!

The labelStrings I'm toggling between are not of the same length; they are
called "Long" and "Short."  I believe that's what was causing the size
recalculation.  Setting XmNrecomputeSize to FALSE gives me what I want.
However, if the strings differed by many more characters, this might not be
adequate because of clipping.

Wayne
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