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From: swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph R. Swick)
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Subject: Re: X Toolkit
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Date: 16 Mar 88 13:17:24 GMT
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>  Widget placement; needs something like TeX "glue".

Yes, the FormWidget is deficient in many respects.  Expect improvements
as soon as we get a chance to implement our paper design.  We also have
some other contributed code to merge.

> Documentation needs more work.

Acknowledged.

> I want to use a popup dialog/query window and don't want the user
> to have to use the mouse to place it.

A PopupShellWidget class is in the works for Xaw which will do
parent-relative positioning.