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From: klee@daisy.UUCP (Ken Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: resizeWidth & resizeHeight of an AsciiStringWidget
Message-ID: <2992@daisy.UUCP>
Date: 20 Apr 89 18:38:25 GMT
References: <8904192223.AA02450@dinorah.wustl.edu>
Reply-To: klee@daisy.UUCP (Ken Lee)
Organization: Daisy Systems Corp., Mountain View, Ca.
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In article <8904192223.AA02450@dinorah.wustl.edu> y2@DINORAH.WUSTL.EDU writes:
=>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).

I've had this problem, too.  The workaround I used was to specify 
XtNheight and XtNwidth for the text widget.  Note that the font height
and 100 pixel width are the defaults for XtNheight and XtNwidth.
-- 
Ken Lee
Daisy Systems Corp., Interactive Graphics Tools Dept.
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