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From: asente@decwrl.dec.com (Paul Asente)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Sharing widgets among programs.
Message-ID: <2305@bacchus.dec.com>
Date: 19 Dec 89 00:36:56 GMT
References: <8912181622.AA03299@MIES.MIT.EDU>
Organization: DEC Western Software Lab
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Regarding sharing windows between applications and using the toolkit,

In article <8912181622.AA03299@MIES.MIT.EDU> phils@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Philip Thompson) writes:
>Do I subclass all of my widets and change
>their Realize proceedures to use a common window?

Yep, that's the easiest way.  Add a new resource that is the widget's
window, and in the realize procedure assign the window into the widget
field and (possibly) reparent the window.  At least one window manager
does this.

	-paul asente
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