Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!dsg.csc.ti.COM!Kimbrough 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 Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 17 > 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.