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From: klee@daisy.UUCP (Ken Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: dialog, label, and transient shell widget problems
Message-ID: <3009@daisy.UUCP>
Date: 26 Apr 89 22:58:07 GMT
Reply-To: klee@daisy.UUCP (Ken Lee)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Daisy Systems Corp., Mountain View, Ca.
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I'm creating a general purpose alert box that I can popup to inform
users of important news.  I tried using a Athena dialog widget (inside a
transient shell).  Unfortunately, I got segmentation faults (in the
intrinsics) when I tried to XtSetValues the XtNlabel on the dialog widget.

I redid it using a label and command widgets in a form.  That worked
fine, except that the label widget doesn't resize, even though I have
XtNresize set to True.

I'm using X11R3 on a Sun 386i, SunOS 4.0.1.  Are these bugs?  Anyone
know how to work around them?  Thanks much.

Also, the transient shell widget seems to set override redirect.  My 
window manager (TWM) completely ignores it.  I can work around this
using a WM shell.
-- 
Ken Lee
Daisy Systems Corp., Interactive Graphics Tools Dept.
Internet and Smail:  klee@daisy.uucp
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