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- From: kemnitz@netcom.com (Greg Kemnitz)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
- Subject: Re: Control Area refresh
- Message-ID: <85_ndw+.kemnitz@netcom.com>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 22:03:30 GMT
- References: <1992Aug21.115857.2914@reks.uia.ac.be>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
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- In article <1992Aug21.115857.2914@reks.uia.ac.be> frans@kiwi.uia.ac.be writes:
- =Can anybody tell me how to freeze the appearance of a an OLIT Control Area widget
- =while adding and/or removing children of it. I always have the annoying behavior
- =that when I want to change a child of a Control Area by deleting it and inserting
- =a new one, the Control Area immediately resizes itself on the deletion of the
- =child, and resizes itself again while inserting the new child. It would be nice
- =if one would be able to freeze the Control Area while making the changes. I tried
- =by unmapping the Control Area, but it didn't seem to have any effect.
- =
- =Francois Staes
- =University of Antwerp
- =Antwerp, Belgium
- =Email : frans@kiwi.uia.ac.be
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- Use XtCreateWidget instead of XtCreateManagedWidget, but
- you have to use XtManageChildren or XtManageChild at some point.
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- The other solution is to use XtUnmanageChildren or XtUnmanageChild.
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