[comp.windows.x.motif] XmForm in a BulletinBoardDialog

jgraham@CRC.SKL.DND.CA (Jay Graham) (02/13/91)

Greetings!

    I have an application that requires a simulation clock (hh:mm:ss) to
    be in one of my windows.  I would like to have the clock in the
    top right hand corner of the window and remain in the top right hand
    corner whenever the window is resized.  The window (widget)that the clock
    is in is a BulletinBoardDialog, so I thought that I could have the 
    BulletinBoardDialog "control" (UIL) a Form and then have the Form
    "control" the RowColumn that contains my clock labels.  With this
    layout I was going to attach the RowColumn to the top right of the
    Form using   XmNrightAttachment = XmATTACH_FORM and
                 XmNtopAttachment = XmATTACH_FORM
    in the UIL file.


    When I did this the attachment did not work.  I tried the same
    method inside the MainWindow instead of the BulletinBoardDialog
    and it works great.

    Why did the Form not behave as I expected in the BBD?
    Do I need to set a different resources for a Form in a BBD?
    Does a Form work with a DialogShell parent?



    I am using Interactive's X11R3 and Motif 1.0 on an AT&T 386 with
    386/ix.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Jay Graham            (jgraham@crc.skl.dnd.ca)
Software Kinetics,
Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA