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- From: sglanger@vela.acs.oakland.edu (LANGER STEVEN C)
- Subject: Re: Forms and MainWIndows
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.141616.644@vela.acs.oakland.edu>
- Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI.
- References: <1993Jan21.172420.10223@vela.acs.oakland.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 14:16:16 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan21.172420.10223@vela.acs.oakland.edu> sglanger@vela.acs.oakland.edu (LANGER STEVEN C) writes:
- >
- >Hi Netters;
- > Another question. I've got a mainWindow with a menuBar and want to attatch
- >some permanent text and label widgets along the bottom. The easiest way
- >to do this would be a form, but when I attach the form to the mainWindow
- >(and set its color differently to see where it is) nothing happens. No
- >color change and writes to the form don't appear. Now I've used this
- >method several time on dialogs to great effect, but obviously mainWindows
- >are different.
- >
- >The Row-Column scheme doesn't turn me on cause the labels I'm using are
- >not symmetric. Any kind hints or suggestions would be appreciated and if
- >there is sufficient interest I'll happily post them to the group.
-
- Once again I apologise for this simple problem. I've since found that
- all I need do is add form to the last argument of the
- XtMainWindowSetAreas func
- (or whatever its called, I'm writing this from memory).
-
- --regards, steve
-
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- --
- Steve Langer sglanger@argo.acs.oakland.edu (VMS)
- Oakland University sglanger@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Ultrix)
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