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From: swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph R. Swick)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Getting Widget resources before creating the widget
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Date: 15 Jun 89 18:36:24 GMT
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> I have now run into enough cases where I need this functionality, that
> I can no longer think of workarounds.  What I need to do is get certain
> resource values about a widget that I am *about* to create.

There is no pre-packaged function that will do this all at once for
you.  Most of the pieces you need to build such a function do exist.
See XrmGetResource and XtConvert.