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From: diamant@hpfclp.SDE.HP.COM (John Diamant)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Multiple independant widgets
Message-ID: <9740081@hpfclp.SDE.HP.COM>
Date: 28 Jan 89 04:26:15 GMT
References: <5799@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Organization: HP SESD, Fort Collins, CO
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> I know I can get these two windows as subwindows of a VPaned
> or some such, but I was hoping the have them independent.
> Do I need to do something special to do that?

I assume by independent you mean that you want two toplevel windows (two
windows that are children of the root window instead of being in the
same child of the root window).  The way to do that is to call
XtCreateApplicationShell to create the second one.  It will return a
shell widget (just as XtInitialize does).  In each, you can place one
child widget.

This description is based on the R2 toolkit.  In R3, you should still be
able to use the above, but XtInitialize is no longer the only way to
intialize the toolkit and thus there are other variants (of which I'm not
familiar as I'm pretty new to R3).


John Diamant
Software Engineering Systems Division
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