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From: net@TUB.BITNET (Oliver Laumann)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Re: XtConvert & SetValues for floats
Message-ID: <8907270952.AA01762@tub.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jul 89 09:52:10 GMT
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> The Arg struct has a char * for name and a caddr_t for value.  When a
> float is loaded into a caddr_t, your friendly C compiler converts the
> float into an int.  Ain't that great?!
>
> Now perhaps you can understand why there are no examples of widgets
> which use float resources.  :-(

When float resources are used, a pointer to a float is stored into the
argument value instead of a literal float.  The Xaw scroll bar widget at
least (which has XtRFloat resources) works quite well.

Or am I missing something?

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Oliver Laumann              net@TUB.BITNET              net@tub.UUCP