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From: swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph R. Swick)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Help with child positioning in Form widgets
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Date: 30 Jan 89 18:19:31 GMT
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     Date:  23 Jan 89 20:00:22 GMT
     From:  emory!vss@gatech.edu  (V.S.Sunderam)

     ... XtNhorizDistance and
     XtNvertDistance (to specify the distance).

     ... *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.

Gee, the following two lines added to a resource file seem to do the
right thing to clients/xclipboard (which uses the form widget), when
used in conjunction with the default app-defaults file (XClipboard.ad):

  XClipboard.shell.quit.horizDistance: 100
  XClipboard.shell.erase.horizDistance: -100

Moral: Negative distances should work.  Are you sure you're using X11R3?