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From: XRCLS@SCFVM.BITNET (Cindy Starr)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: window clipping?
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Date: 25 Mar 89 17:27:57 GMT
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>    How can I display as subwindow such that it is not clipped by the
>    parent window borders, when part of the subwindow falls outside the
>    parent window?
>
>A subwindow isn't allowed to do this in X.

   Philip Gust, from HP, made a presentation at the X Technical Conference
that challenged this in his talk "Window Groups as an Alternative to the
Parent-Child Relationship in X11."  He proposed a parameter  CLIP-GROUP or
DONT-CLIP-GROUP to determine if the window group members should be clipped
to the leader.  Other suggestions included parameters to control
mapping of group members when the leader is unmapped and to control the
stacking order of member windows.

   What is the reaction from X users and the consortium on these ideas?
I've not seen any discussion on them.  Aren't some of these issues policy
currently set by X?  Gust's suggestions seem to push them into the arena
of mechanism . . .


         Cindy Starr         e-mail: xrcls@scfvm.nasa.gsfc.gov

         NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 632
         Greenbelt, Md.   20771