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Re: Placing a base widget before it's mapped (X-windows) [message #2302]

Fri, 03 June 1994 12:24

fedor
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Registered: August 1992

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Well, no one answered my question, but I was able to reasonable answer
it myself. Turns out, placing a base widget depends as much on your window
manager as with IDL. You can create a base widget and set the offset:

a = WIDGET_BASE(/COLUMN, XOFFSET = 200, YOFFSET = 200, ..)

But its up to the window manager to use or ignore this offset "suggestion"
The IDL documentation (Duh!) states that with Motif (mwm) you can insert

*clientAutoPlace: off

in .Xdefaults. I've found that when using twm, you can put

UsePPosition "on"

in your .twmrc file. Other managers will probably be different :-(.

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