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From: asente@decwrl.dec.com (Paul Asente)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: How to move windows of widgets?
Message-ID: <2699@bacchus.dec.com>
Date: 8 Feb 90 01:50:11 GMT
References: <8680@portia.Stanford.EDU> <1564@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Organization: DEC Western Software Lab
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In article <1564@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> sanjay@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Sanjay Manandhar) writes:
>I am trying to move the window corresponding to a command widget which
>is a child of a form widget. In the callback of the command widget I
>extract its window ID using XtWindow(). Now I want to move this window
>just like any other window using XMoveWindow() and then XMapRaised().
>
>The outcome: The command widget vanishes but it does not show up at
>the new place.

You shouldn't be moving your widget that way; instead you should be doing
an XtSetValues on its XtNx and XtNy resources.  You're probably confusing
the poor form widget something awful.

	-paul asente
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