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From: swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph R. Swick)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: positioning buttons
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Date: 5 Aug 88 20:37:08 GMT
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Xaw/Box will _always_ try to resize itself to be the smallest size
that will contain it's children with a width equal to its widest
child (plus padding).  It's up to the parent of the Box to impose
some other constraints, such as an alternate width.

In contrib/menus there is the beginning of a subclass of Box,
MenuBox, which would have other options such as the horizontal
placement you desire.