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From: swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph R. Swick)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Finding existing Xtoolkit converters
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Date: 20 Sep 89 14:43:37 GMT
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> What I don't understand in this context is how one
> is supposed to use XtConvert() to convert the resource arguments to
> XtCreateWidget() and similar functions.  It is obviously not possible,
> since in this case there is no widget ID that can be passed to XtConvert().

The best you can do is specify an alternate widget that you believe
will provide the same conversion arguments to the type converter.
The ones that matter as far as Core resources are concerned are
screen and colormap.  The first shouldn't be a problem and your
application probably has a pretty good idea about what widgets
are sharing specific colormaps.