Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!apple!bloom-beacon!westhawk.UUCP!thp From: thp@westhawk.UUCP ("Timothy H Panton.") Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Moving children. Message-ID: <8908110814.AA16521@westhawk.uucp> Date: 11 Aug 89 08:14:32 GMT Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 19 > From: Francois.Bitz@sam.cs.cmu.edu > > it means that one might have > to 'write' a children window manager within the application > if one wants to place, resize children windows... OR just > not have children windows (i.e. make all windows to level > windows). The second solution is not too great since I want the > children to move,... be visibly bounded by the top window. We had this problem with an Xtoolkit application, and eventually had a geometry manager widget written that allowed one to move and resize it's children. -Like vpane only 2 dimensional. I don't think it is likely to be publically available, but I'll ask. Tim. +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Tim Panton, Westhawk Ltd. (Contract X application programmer) | |Paper: Westhawk Ltd. 26 Rydal Grove, Helsby, Cheshire, WA6 OET. UK. | |Phone: +44 92822574 uucp : ..!mcvax!ukc!cam-cl!westhawk!thp | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+