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From: pusateri@macbeth.cs.duke.edu (Thomas J. Pusateri)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Athena Widget resizing
Keywords: athena
Message-ID: <18037@duke.cs.duke.edu>
Date: 7 Mar 90 17:09:32 GMT
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I am using the athena text widget to display columns of data. The text
widget is dynamically resized depending on the number of columns
requested.  This resizing works fine simply by setting the XtNwidth
using XtSetValues.

The problem appears when I try to prevent the program from running off
the end of the screen. I change the size to the requested value and
then use XtTranslateCoords to get the starting position of the top
level shell.  If the starting position plus the width of the top level
shell plus the borders are greater than the width of the screen then I
resize the top level shell to stop at the screen boundary. The text
widget enables horizontal scrolling (scrollWhenNeeded) and it looks
fine. However, all of the labels and command buttons in the top level
shell get truncated. This doesn't seem right. Maybe there is a problem
with the form widget here?

Thanks for any info!

Tom Pusateri

pusateri@nbsr.duke.edu