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From: Kimbrough@dsg.csc.ti.COM (Kerry Kimbrough)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Reparenting widgets
Message-ID: <2796250413-14903012@Sierra>
Date: 11 Aug 88 00:13:33 GMT
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   > Date: Wed, 10 Aug 88 16:59:26 -0700
   > From: haynes@wsl.dec.com
   > Subject: Re: Reparenting widgets 
   > 
   > You can't reparent widgets unless you're a wizard. Even a wizard would
   > have to do a lot of research before trying it.
   > 
   > 	-- Charles

But what's the rationale? Is reparenting considered harmful or unnecessary?
Doesn't this close off a protocol feature to Xt users? 

Why couldn't there be a XtReparent function that would do this?  This assumes
that ReparentWindow requests on a widget only come from the client that created
it.  But for a non-top-level widget, this is quite reasonable, and for a
top-level widget, there's no parent widget to update anyway.