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From: kit@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris D. Peterson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: XtPopup Questions
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Date: 12 Jan 89 19:59:39 GMT
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> We have a topLevelShellWidget displayed with XtPopup.  Once the
> widget is in iconic form, we can no longer pop it down nor can we
> change it from iconic form to non-iconic form from the driver
> program.  How can we get control of it again?

The problem is that the toolkit and window manager must agree on how to
do this, and until the ICCCM is "officially" a standard there is no way to
do this.  This will be fixed when there is a real ICCCM complient window manager
and Toolkit, until then...

> We would like to popup a topLevelShellWidget at a program controlled
> position.  Currently, when we try we are prompted to give a position with
> the mouse.  How can we bypass the prompt for position??

If you specify a geometery string for the widget via its "geometry" resource
the window will pop up where specified.  The best method of doing this is in
an applicaion defaults file.


						Chris D. Peterson     
						MIT X Consortium /
						Project Athena 

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