[comp.windows.x] X Toolkit, widget creation

Kimbrough%dsg@ti-csl.CSNET (Kerry Kimbrough) (08/25/87)

Can someone tell me why it was considered important for widget creation to
possibly accept an existing window, rather than always creating a new widget
window? I'm not saying it's a bad idea; I can sort of imagine a rationale for
this, but I haven't yet found it compelling. Is this a "why not?" feature or a
"gotta have it!" feature?