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From: vss@emory.uucp (V.S.Sunderam)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Help with child positioning in Form widgets
Keywords: Xaw FormWidgets Child Geometry
Message-ID: <3632@emory.uucp>
Date: 23 Jan 89 20:00:22 GMT
Organization: Math & Computer Science, Emory University, Atlanta
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I would very much appreciate some advice on the following problem:

With a form widget as the parent, it is possible to specify the
positioning of the second & subsequent children relative to previously
created children using the XtNfromHoriz and XtNfromVert resource
attributes (to specify the widget) and XtNhorizDistance and
XtNvertDistance (to specify the distance).

However, this *always* creates children to the right of or below
the reference child. Is it possible to position a new child above or
to the left of the original using these or other widget attributes?

I have already tried negative distance specification.
I am using Athena widgets.

Thanks in advance

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