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Re: How to move windows of widgets?

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From: Paul Asente
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1990 01:50
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In article <1564@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> sanjay@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Sanjay Manandhar) writes:
>I am trying to move the window corresponding to a command widget which
>is a child of a form widget. In the callback of the command widget I
>extract its window ID using XtWindow(). Now I want to move this window
>just like any other window using XMoveWindow() and then XMapRaised().
>
>The outcome: The command widget vanishes but it does not show up at
>the new place.

You shouldn't be moving your widget that way; instead you should be doing
an XtSetValues on its XtNx and XtNy resources.  You're probably confusing
the poor form widget something awful.

	-paul asente
	    asente@decwrl.dec.com	decwrl!asente
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From: asente@decwrl.dec.com (Paul Asente)
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Subject: Re: How to move windows of widgets?
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Date: 8 Feb 90 01:50:11 GMT
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