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From: yong@metasoft.UUCP (Yongdeng Chen)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: XtReparentWidget
Keywords: How difficult to write
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Date: 30 Mar 89 00:45:40 GMT
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Hi there,
	I have a drawing program under development.  And I am
going to use TextWidget to edit the labels and texts.  It would
be very expensive to keep all the TextWidget around for each text
or label.  It would also be very expensive to keep on creating and
destroying the text widget.  So I decided to have just one TextWidget
for editing texts and labels.  There is no problem if there is
only one diagram drawing widget.  But, my program will have many
diagram drawing widgets from time to time.
	So I would like to have a function some thing like
XtReparentWidget to move the text widget from one diagram drawing
widget to another.
	Has anyone written that function already?
	If I want to writing my own function for that, what are
the short cuts, cautions and advises that I should know ?
	How messy would that be to write such a function ?
	Thanks in advance for your suggestions, advises, and answers!
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Yongdeng Chen
Meta Software Corporation
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Cambridge, MA 02140
(617)576-6920