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From: pds@quintus.UUCP (Peter Schachte)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: XtConvert
Message-ID: <1208@quintus.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jul 89 17:09:36 GMT
Reply-To: pds@quintus.UUCP (Peter Schachte)
Organization: Quintus Computer Systems, Inc.
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The (R3) doc for XtConvert() says it takes a widget argument which
"specifies the widget to use for additional arguments (if any are
needed)."  What does this mean?  What extra arguments?

I'm trying to convert strings to the appropriate argument types to be
put into the ArgList to be passed to XtCreateWidget() or
XtAppCreateShell(), so I don't have a widget yet to pass to XtConvert().
Can I pass it a NULL?  Or is there some way I can find the appropriate
resource converter myself so I can call XtDirectConvert()?

Thanks in advance for any advice,
-- 
-Peter Schachte
pds@quintus.uucp
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