slc1290@hare.udev.cdc.com (steve chesney x4662) (01/18/91)
We are running Motif 1.1 and notice what appear to be too many resize events. For example, the application consists of an application shell which has as children a bulletin board (with pushbuttons) and a transient shell which has a menu bar and workspace. If a resize is forced on the application shell due to changing widgets inside it, the transient shell resizes even though it does not need to. Has anyone else seen this? -- Steve Chesney Control Data Corporation slc1290@hare.udev.cdc.com
meeks@osf.org (W. Scott Meeks) (01/22/91)
>From: timbuk!shamash!hare.udev.cdc.com!slc1290@uunet.uu.net (steve chesney x4662) > >We are running Motif 1.1 and notice what appear to be too many resize events. >For example, the application consists of an application shell which has as >children a bulletin board (with pushbuttons) and a transient shell which has >a menu bar and workspace. If a resize is forced on the application shell due >to changing widgets inside it, the transient shell resizes even though it does >not need to. Has anyone else seen this? "Unnecessary" resize events is a know problem in Motif. Part of the problem is caused by the complexity of geometry management in Xt and the fact that sometimes a widget may not be able to tell for certain that it's parent resized it so that it has to resize itself. We're working to clean up geometry management in Motif. I haven't heard of your particular case before, but we'll add it to our list of cases to investigate. Thanks for the report. W. Scott Meeks | We must live with the fact, true throughout recorded Open Software Foundation | history, that our artifacts are sometimes flawed and meeks@osf.org | cause us to die in novel and unexpected ways, and we (617) 621-7229 | can only do our human best to minimize the problems.