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From: y2@DINORAH.WUSTL.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: resizeWidth & resizeHeight of an AsciiStringWidget
Message-ID: <8904192223.AA02450@dinorah.wustl.edu>
Date: 19 Apr 89 22:23:23 GMT
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I have an application which requires user to select a filename out of
a directory. The program is written with Athena widgets.  The question
is made of by a dialog widget, I am trying to provide the help (list
of existing files in the directory) through a popup widget when a
specific key is struck.  The case I was testing has three files in the
directory.  The file index function we used mallocs a buffer, sets up
filenames (each terminated by \n) in the buffer and returns the string
pointer.  Therefore, I created an overrideShellWidget with one child
(formWidget).  And inside this child, I placed one label widget and
one AsciiStringWidget.  The AsciiStringWidget was used to hold the
file index.  My problem is no matter how much I tried, I could not get
AsciiStringWidget to resize to cover the text size. It insists to be
one font high and 100 pixels long (at least it appear to be so).  If
anybody could give me some direction, I will be most grateful.  TIA.

Yeong Yeong Liu
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Here is part of my code.

	.
	.
  n = 0;
  XtSetArg(args[n],XtNx,x);			n++;
  XtSetArg(args[n],XtNy,y);			n++;
  popupshell = XtCreatePopupShell("msg",overrideShellWidgetClass,w,args,n);
	.
	.

  n = 0;
  form = XtCreateManagedWidget("msg",formWidgetClass,popupshell,args,n);
	.
	.
  /* message */
  n = 0;
  XtSetArg(args[n],XtNlabel,msg);		n++;
  msgw = XtCreateManagedWidget("",labelWidgetClass,form,args,n);

	.
	.
    n = 0;
    XtSetArg(args[n],XtNfromVert,msgw);			n++;
    XtSetArg(args[n],XtNstring,string_ptr);		n++;
    XtSetArg(args[n],XtNresizable,TRUE);		n++;
    XtSetArg(args[n],XtNtextOptions,resizeHeight|resizeWidth);    n++;
    XtCreateManagedWidget("msg",asciiStringWidgetClass,form,args,n);

  /* display */
  XtPopup(popupshell,XtGrabNone);