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From: mikeg%monsoon.c3@lanl.gov (Michael P. Gerlek)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Re: XtConvert & SetValues for floats
Message-ID: <14002@lanl.gov>
Date: 26 Jul 89 15:22:43 GMT
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From article <100920091@hpcvlx.HP.COM>, by ben@hpcvlx.HP.COM (Benjamin Ellsworth):
> 
>> ... Is there something wierd about floats ...?
> 
> You betcha!
> [...]
> Now perhaps you can understand why there are no examples of widgets
> which use float resources.  :-(

Hmm.  Okay - FYI, I've discovered the Athena Scroll widget uses floats
to represent percentages.  I've not used the Athena kit (I use the HP
set), but is this a known bug in the Scroll widget, is there some
work-around, or will this will be fixed in R4?

Swick@Athena said I could do "some ugly stuff with unions to convince
the compiler not to convert the value when storing it in the arglist". 
Can anyone provide any pointers [no pun intended] on what this means
and/or how to do this?

Thanks again. 


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