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From: ndd@romeo.cs.duke.edu (Ned D. Danieley)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Form widget size restrictions?
Keywords: X11R3
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Date: 21 Apr 89 16:34:08 GMT
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X11R3, patches 1-8, gcc 1.33, twm 1.2, Sun 3/280, SunOs 3.5

I have an application which starts off like:

	XtToolkitInitialize();
	context = XtCreateApplicationContext();
	dpy = XtOpenDisplay(context, NULL, "test", "Test", NULL, 0,
		argc, argv);
	toplevel = XtAppCreateShell(NULL, NULL, applicationShellWidgetClass,
		dpy, NULL, NULL);

I then set the dimensions of toplevel using XtSetValues, create a Form
widget whose parent is toplevel, and add some buttons to that form
(call it TopForm). Now what I want to do is click on one of the buttons
in TopForm, and create another form widget. The problem I'm having is
that this second form, which I make a child of toplevel, always comes
up right on top of TopForm, and is clipped by TopForm. It turns out
that these secondary forms need to be a good bit bigger than TopForm, so
this causes problems. Am I really restricted to the size (and location)
of toplevel when I create its children?

Ned Danieley (ndd@sunbar.mc.duke.edu)
Basic Arrhythmia Laboratory
Box 3140, Duke University Medical Center
Durham, NC  27710
(919) 684-6807 or 684-6942