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From: clyne@redcloud.ucar.edu (John Clyne)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: question on XtCreateManagedWidget
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Date: 28 Feb 89 20:39:56 GMT
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I have a couple a questions about the Xt toolkit that I hope someone can
answer. First, what is the difference/advantage between using the 
combination XtCreateWidget, XtManageChild and simply using 
XtCreateManagedWidget? Secondly, I am trying to supply a dialog widget
from the Athena Widget set with default a width so that the dialog box
comes up in a size that is likely to be able to hold the text input without
resizing. The dialog widget is the child of a box widget. If I use pass
the hardcoded width in an ArgList to XtCreateManagedWidget it is ignored.
However, If I use XtSetValues to set the width immediately after I call
XtCreateManagedWidget then the dialog box comes up with the dimension I
gave it. Why is this? And what is the correct/acceptable protocol?


thanks in advance - John clyne


	John Clyne 	(clyne@bierstadt.ucar.edu)
	c/o
	National Center for Atmospheric Research
	P.O. Box 3000
	Boulder, Colorado 80307
	(303) 497-1236

	
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