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From: kit@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Chris D. Peterson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: resizeWidth & resizeHeight of an AsciiStringWidget
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Date: 20 Apr 89 15:18:49 GMT
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> 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).

The text widget doesn't particullarly care what size it is.  In fact it
aways asks to be one row high by 100 pixels wide.  What you need to do is 
force it to be larger.  A good way to do this is to put it inside a VPaned
widget.  If you set the maximum pane size of the label to be its current
height then the VPaned widget will force the text widget to fill all remaining
vertical space.  Then with a geometry specification in your resource file you
can specify the size of your popup widget, and from this the size of your
text widget will be automatically set to take up all space not used
by the label.  Isn't geometry management fun :-)


                                                Chris D. Peterson
                                                MIT X Consortium