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4 Widget creation

Function: create-application-shell &rest resources

Creates the applicationShell widget for a new Motif application.

Function: create-widget (name class parent &rest resources
Function: create-managed-widget (name class parent &rest resources

These create new widgets. CREATE-WIDGET does not automatically manage the created widget, while CREATE-MANAGED-WIDGET does.

Function: create-<widget_class> parent name &rest resources

Convenience function which creates a new widget of class <widget_class>. For instance, CREATE-FORM will create a new XmForm widget.

Variable: *convenience-auto-manage*

Controls whether convenience functions automatically manage the widgets they create. The default is NIL.