Volume 6A: Motif Programming Manual

label, which means that each button will have a different width. The default value of False specifies that the width

of each button is set to the width of the widest button, so that all buttons have the same width.

6.4.4 The Dialog Title

When a new shell widget is mapped to the screen, the window manager creates its own window that contains the title

bar, resize handles, and other window decorations and makes the window of the DialogShell the child of this new

window. This technique is called reparenting a window; it is only done by the window manager in order to add

window decorations to a shell window. The window manager reparents instances of all of the shell widget classes

except OverrideShell. These shells are used for menus and thus should not have window manager decorations.

Most window managers that reparent shell windows display titles in the title bars of their windows. For predefined

Motif dialogs, the Motif toolkit sets the default title to the name of the dialog widget with the string _popup

appended. Since this string is almost certainly not an appropriate title for the window, you can change the title

explicitly using the -XmNdialogTitle BulletinBoard resource. (Do not confuse this title with the message

displayed in MessageDialog, which is set by XmNmessageString.) The value for -XmNdialogTitle must be a

compound string. The BulletinBoard in turn sets the -XmNtitle resource of the DialogShell; the value of this

resource is a regular C string.

So, you can set the title for a ...