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In article <9207241445.AA29168@rwthi3.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>, norbert@MOZART.INFORMATIK.RWTH-AACHEN.DE (Norbert Kiesel) writes:
|> I want to build a complex Glyph which contains Glyphs of varing size.
|> For sake of simplicity, imagine a Window displaying a HBox containing
|> two Labels separated by a HGlue. The application replaces one of the
|> Labels with larger new ones. What I'm trying to do is that the window
|> always resizes as needed. What actually happens is that the new lables
|> are only drawn within the extension? of the initial Label. I tried to
|> wrap the changing Label(s) within a Patch and calling
|> reallocate-redraw-reallocate on it, but without sucess.
|> 
|> Enlarging the Window manually (using the window manager) also only
|> enlarges the glue, but don't pushes the glue to get more space for the
|> now larger Label.
|> 
|> So I have two questions: (1) How can I force reallocation of all
|> components of the composite glyph and (2) is it possible to even ask
|> the window manager for a greater window if neccessary?

You can call allocate to force reallocation, though may want to call request
to indicate that components' requisitions may have changed.

To request a change in the window size, use Window::resize.