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In article <4027@hub.UUCP> tom@bears.ucsb.edu writes:
>I have a Box widget that contains a number of Command widgets, and I
>want to be able to change their sensitivity.  Ideally, I would like to
>be able to do this by just changing the sensitivity of the Box widget
>that is their parent.  This doesn't seem to work, however.
>
>If I set the sensitivity explicity when I create the Box widget, the
>Command widgets have the specified sensitivity.  If, on the other hand,
>I set the sensitivity of the Box with XtVaSetValues, it doesn't seem to
>change the sensitivity of the children.
>
>Am I doing something wrong, or do I misunderstand something, or is this
>a bug?

You're doing something wrong.  There are two ways to change sensitivity:

- When you create the widget by using the XtNsensitive resource.
- Later on, by using XtSetSensitive.

XtSetSensitive has the logic in it for setting the children of the
specified widget insensitive.

	-paul asente
	    asente@decwrl.dec.com	decwrl!asente