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From: swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU ("Ralph R. Swick")
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: reparenting widgets
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Date: 23 Aug 88 22:00:27 GMT
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> are there any problems with using
> XReparentWindow on the shell widget's window?

In principle, no; many window managers do it all the time.  In practice,
for what you are trying to do, I'll make no guarantees.  You will be
better-off creating a new composite widget class to do what you want,
and ignoring the ShellWidget returned by XtInitialize.