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From: omtzigt-theo@CS.Yale.EDU (theo omtzigt)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: updating widget state after a wm move
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Date: 4 Feb 90 21:01:57 GMT
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Reply-To: omtzigt-theo@CS.Yale.EDU (theo omtzigt)
Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept, New Haven CT  06520-2158
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This must be a very simple question for anyone who has programmed up
any user interface, but I am kind of stuck. This is the problem;
I define a form widget that contains command buttons. The functionality
of the buttons is to pop down a menu through the call back routines.
To be able to pull down the menu at the right place, I am querying 
the x and y position of both the form and the relative position of 
the button. However, the state of the widget that I get back 
through XtGetValues, is the position of the widget at realization, 
which is not necessarily the position where the widget is, because
the user may have moved the widget. I do realize that I have to 
catch a move event from the window manager, but I can`t find the 
event to put in the translation table. So, I have this feeling that
it is not the way to go about this. Does any body know how to solve
this problem, either through a different approach or pointing me
to the right event to put in the translation table? Thanks in advance,

Theo 
omtzigt-theo@cs.yale.edu