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Volume 6A: Motif Programming Manual
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Volume 6A: Motif Programming Manual

by David Brennan, Dan Heller, Paula Ferguson
September 1993
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1014 pages
28h 26m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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reject the resize request of the child that started all the negotiation. Geometry management is by no means a simple
task; it is explained more completely in Volume Four, X Toolkit Intrinsics Programming Manual.
9.4 The Form Widget
The Form widget is subclassed from the BulletinBoard class, so it inherits all of the resources that the BulletinBoard
has to offer. Accordingly, the children of a Form can be placed at specific x,y coordinates and geometry management
can be performed as in the source code However, the Form provides additional geometry management features that
allow its children to be positioned relative to one another and relative to specific locations in the Form.
In order to use a Form, you must include the file <Xm/Form.h>. A Form is created in a similar way to other manager
widgets, as shown below:
Widget form;
form = XtVaCreateWidget ("name",
xmFormWidgetClass, parent,
resource−value−list,
NULL);
/* create children */
XtManageChild (form);
9.4.1 Form Attachments
Geometry management in a Form is done using attachment resources. These resources are constraint resources, which
means that they are specified for the children of the Form. The resources provide various ways of specifying the
position of a child of a Form by attaching each of the four sides of the child to another entity. The side of a widget can
be attached to another widget, to a fixed position in the Form, to a flexible position in the Form, to the Form itself, or
to nothing at all. These attachments can be considered ...
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