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From: plunge@BULLWINKLE.UNM.EDU (stephanie hallett-U)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: widgets and their names
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Date: 8 Jul 89 23:11:47 GMT
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Hello,

We are writing a large application which is using X11R3.  We are using
the Athena widgets and the Xtoolkit (Xaw and Xt).  The type of machines
we are writing under are PMAX, SUN3 and VAX.

We are trying to create a program which stores certain events for widgets
in a journal.  The journal can then be used by other users to see
what the "instructor" had done.  We would like to do this by storing
the widgets full name along with the event, and then retrieve the widget
from that name later on.

We know that there are proposals event playback, but we want to be
able to use the journal to perform the same process on different
data sets.

The two questions we have are:

1)   Given a widget, how do you get the full xrm resource name.

2)   Given the full xrm resource name, how do you get the widget.
NOTE:  We tried using XtNameToWidget(root,name), but during playback
we do not have access to all root (toplevel) widgets.

thanks in advance
stephanie

please respond directly to me at the following e-mail address
plunge@bullwinkle.unm.edu