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From: tom@capella.ucsb.edu (Tom Weinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Command widgets and ancestorSensitive
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Date: 22 Feb 90 01:39:55 GMT
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I have a Box widget that contains a number of Command widgets, and I
want to be able to change their sensitivity.  Ideally, I would like to
be able to do this by just changing the sensitivity of the Box widget
that is their parent.  This doesn't seem to work, however.

If I set the sensitivity explicity when I create the Box widget, the
Command widgets have the specified sensitivity.  If, on the other hand,
I set the sensitivity of the Box with XtVaSetValues, it doesn't seem to
change the sensitivity of the children.

I have managed to do what I want by doing a XtVaGetValues on the Box
widget to get a list of the children, and then setting sensitivity on
each one individually, but I would rather just change it on the Box
widget.

Am I doing something wrong, or do I misunderstand something, or is this
a bug?


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