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From: swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph R. Swick)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Finding existing Xtoolkit converters
Message-ID: <8909191143.AA08651@LYRE.MIT.EDU>
Date: 19 Sep 89 11:43:12 GMT
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Organization: DEC/MIT Project Athena
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> Is there any reasonable way to get the converter pointer from the toolkit
> which I have overlooked ?

No, not really.  And no specific work has been done to change
this in the just-published revision document.

> Note, XtConverts needs a widget (to scan resource database), and in my
> converter I don't have one - and I don't want to pass one, since this
> would trash any caching if I understand it right.

Actually, XtConvert uses the widget principally to identify the
application context and thereby lookup the currently-registered
converter.  You are correct that passing a widget id as a
conversion argument would effectively disable caching for that
conversion.