kittu@shakti.wpd.sgi.com (Krishna Swaroop Kolluri) (03/10/91)
I've got a form with a variable number of pushbuttons stacked one on top of another in the form. The program dynamically reads a file and makes a button for each record in the file. When I resize the form, the pushbuttons are not automatically proportionately resized. (i.e., when enlarged, only the bottom pushbutton is expanded; and when shrunk, pushbuttons on the bottom are lost). They are not getting proportionately resized because you are probably using Xm_ATTACH_WIDGET. Use Xm_ATTACH_POSITION instead. I guess if you could know the number of buttons in advance you could set up a resource file, but I want the program to set everything up for the user and not be dependent on a resource file. Is this possible? Yes, this is possible. What you should do is to first figure out how many records there are in your file and create all your buttons. Let's assume that there are `n' such buttons. Arrange them within the form using the position. For instance, the first buttons is from 0 to 100/n; second from 100/n 2*100/n; and so forth and so on. The only thing I can think to do is to have the program hand-craft a resource file after it knows how many pushbuttons it will have. But surely this can't be the correct way to do it. Also, is there any way to specify the size of the form so that the user can just put it on the screen somewhere? Sure, set the width and the height resources using XtSetValues. hope that helps! kittu.. -- ------- Krishna Swaroop Kolluri 9U-530 kittu@sgi.com Silicon Graphics, Inc. Off:(415)335-1859 Fax:(415)969-2314