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From: clint@ibmpcug.co.uk (Douglas Clinton)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,connect.audit
Subject: Resizing Athena Menu button widgets
Summary: XtNresizable set to TRUE causes protocol error creating menu shell
Keywords: athena
Message-ID: <1990Mar9.180801.1965@ibmpcug.co.uk>
Date: 9 Mar 90 18:08:01 GMT
Organization: The IBM PC User Group, UK.
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I have a menuButtonWidget  which is used to pull down a menu
with a list of strings. Selecting one of the menu items causes the
label in the button to be changed to that string. However, the
buton widget will not resize to fit the string so that if the
new string is longer than the original label it gets truncated.

I have tried setting XtNresizable as the button is the child of
a form widget, but I get a protocol error when calling 
XtCreatePopupShell to create the pull down menu when resizable
is set to true.

Any ideas why this is happening and how I can fix it?

Doug Clinton
clint@ibmpcug.co.uk

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