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From: coltoff@PRC.Unisys.COM (Joel Coltoff)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Geometry management philosophy/procedure
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Date: 6 Jan 89 21:39:31 GMT
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Organization: Unisys/Paoli Research Center, Paoli, PA 19301
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I have a question or two about geometry management. The interface we
are using has a form that contains three horizontally stacked text
widgets and another form at the bottom of the whole mess. In the bottom
form are a row of label widgets and two row of buttons. There are 10
buttons placed side by side.

What I want to happen is the that the size of the application is
controlled by the text in the largest button. That means make all the
buttons the same size then make the text widgets the same size as the
form that encloses the buttons. My problem is that I'm not sure how to
do this properly. What I did was realize the entire widget tree with
mappedWhenManaged set to false. Once all the widgets are realized I
find the largest button and then set sizes and positions of all the
other widgets. When this is done I do XtMapWidget(toplevel). Is this
the correct approach? If not what is a better way to do it?

Another feature I would like that complicates things a little more is
have my text widget be a fixed number of lines in height instead of a
fixed number of pixels. Even if it is a hack under R3 to get the the
font a widget is using it can be done. I can then configure the widgets
to the new size. It get a little messy because the y coordinates of the
widgets below the current one are likely to change based on the number
of lines displayed. Any hints on a good way to do this?

Thanks in advance.
-- 
	- Joel
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