tap@stl.stc.co.uk (Tony Plant) (04/15/91)
Hi All, Environment : Sun 4, SunOS 4.1, X11R4, Motif 1.0 I wish to create a set of XmList Widgets inside an XmRowColumn Widget. I know the maximum width of the XmLists and the number of visible items. However, at the time of creation the XmLists are empty (So why create them ? Long story, mostly "commercial in confidence", but I do need to create them. The required height for the Lists is set with the XmNvisibleItemCount resource and this works fine. However, any width I might specify, using the XmNwidth resource, is completely ignored. If I use XtQueryGeometry to ask the RowColumn it's preferred size, it reports a width and height of 16 pixels (default size for RowColumn). Adding the List Widget and querying again reports a width of 30 pixels, regardless of the value I set for XmNwidth. My theory is that the RowColumn asks it's List children for their *preferred* size. The preferred size of an empty XmList is a height as calculated from the current font and XmNvisibleItemCount and a width as small as possible. This preferred width is smaller than the width I wish to set. So how do I get my empty List to have the desired width ? Thanks in advance, Bye Tony -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Tony Plant | BNR (Europe) Ltd, Harlow, Essex, UK, CM17 9NA (aka T.A.Plant@stl.stc.co.uk) | Tel : +44 279 429531 ext 2109 The Company has changed it's name But the song remains the same ! -------------------------------------------------------------------