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From: Kimbrough%dsg@ti-csl.CSNET (Kerry Kimbrough)
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Subject: X Toolkit, widget creation
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Date: Tue, 25-Aug-87 15:38:55 EDT
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Can someone tell me why it was considered important for widget creation to
possibly accept an existing window, rather than always creating a new widget
window? I'm not saying it's a bad idea; I can sort of imagine a rationale for
this, but I haven't yet found it compelling. Is this a "why not?" feature or a
"gotta have it!" feature?