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From: diamant@hpfclp.SDE.HP.COM (John Diamant)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: resizing windows on hp9000
Message-ID: <9740085@hpfclp.SDE.HP.COM>
Date: 1 Mar 89 21:03:25 GMT
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Organization: HP SESD, Fort Collins, CO
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> we are using g++ and Xlib to write applications on hp9000 workstations.
> windows i have created have done what i wanted usually, but the window
> manager (uwm) doesnt seem to know how to resize them... tho ive set all sorts ofhints and things. uwms  acts like its resizing - an outline of a smaller or
> larger window appears, and a box with the dimensions of the oyutlined window. But
> when the mouse button is released, the window is in its original state ..tho
> it sometimes moves, apparently due to bit gravity.

Does this happen with all applications running under uwm or only your
application?  If it's only yours, then it may be a complicated problem
of one or the other not following the ICCCM (conventions manual or following
different ones).  However, I suspect it is happening to all applications
running under this window manager.  Check which mouse button you are using
to do the resize.  I haven't used uwm in a while, but I remember it
rubber banding regardless of which button is pressed (once you've asked for
a resize), but only working if you used the correct one (right button I
think).  If you used the wrong button, it had the symptoms you described.
I never understood why it did that so I assume it was just a bug.


John Diamant
Software Engineering Systems Division
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