Why don labels in a Form resize when the label is changed?
I’ve got some labels in a form. The labels don’t resize whenever the label string resource is changed. As a result, the operator has to resize the window to see the new label contents. I am using Motif 1.1. Answer: This problem may happen to any widget inside a Form widget. The problem was that the Form will resize itself when it gets geometry requests from its children. If its preferred size is not allowed, the Form will disallow all geometry requests from its children. The workaround is that you should set any ancestor of the Form to be resizable. For the shell which contains the Form you should set the shell resource XmNallowShellResize to be True (by default, it is set to FALSE). There is currently an inconsistency on how resizing is being done, and it may get fixed in Motif 1.2. db@sunbim.be (Danny Backx) wrote: Basically what you have to do is set the XmNresizePolicy on the Form to XmRESIZE_NONE. The facts seem to be that XmRESIZE_NONE does NOT mean “do not allow resizes”. You ma
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