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From: converse@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Donna Converse)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Help !!
Message-ID: <8908061956.AA09696@expo.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: 6 Aug 89 19:56:27 GMT
References: <Aug.3.09.30.51.1989.29747@aramis.rutgers.edu>
Organization: X Consortium, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
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>         Can some X-guru  help  me on this one?

Contemplate the meaning of initialization and realize an Intrinsic truth.  :-)


>         I am running X11-R3 on a SUN3-60. I am a beginner trying to learn
> X-widgets and Intrinsics. I have got a program that opens a toplevel shell,
> creates a boxWidget and tries to create a button and a small menu.
> I get following error messages in XtInitialize() and in
> XtCreateManagedWidget().After these  messages, the program crashes.
> 
> 
> X Toolkit Warning: No type converter registered for 'String' to
> 'Pixel' conversion.
> X Toolkit Warning: No type converter registered for 'Int' to 'Pixmap'
>  conversion.
> X Toolkit Warning: No type converter registered for 'String' to
> 'FontStruct' conversion.


The problem?  Calling XtAddActions before initializing the toolkit.
(I had to see the code.)

Donna Converse
converse@expo.lcs.mit.edu