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Re: Creating an X subwindow in InterViews

#480
From: Mark Linton
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 18:24
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In article <l8ft6aINN3m1@alnitak.usc.edu>, coller@alnitak.usc.edu (Lee D. Coller) writes:
|> I am trying to create X subwindow of a window using InterViews.  I have
|> created a descendant class of Window, SubWindow, to implement this.  It
|> seems to work except for one problem.  When the parent window is resized,
|> the subwindow gets obscured.  Additional resizes cause the subwindow to
|> flash, but not to remain visible.  Any help is appreciated.

You probably have a window between the top-level (resized) window and
your subwindow; this intermediate window is probably destroyed when
the top-level window is resized.

BTW, there is no need to specify OverrideRedirect on subwindows.
This attribute is only meaningful for top-level windows.
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