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From: meo@stiatl.UUCP (Miles O'Neal)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: TextWidget - Bleh code fragment
Message-ID: <7245@stiatl.UUCP>
Date: 11 Oct 89 01:56:09 GMT
Organization: Sales Technologies Inc., "The Little Shop of Horrors..."
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I see from my mail (the article hasn't arrived yet) that Kit@athena
(Chris Peterson) "Bleh"'d my code to get the text from an TextWidget
and suggested using XtGetValues().

ONE little problem.

On a Sun386i, with R2, at least, NONE of the normal solutions, including
what Chris suggested, came even remotely close to working. The only
reason I spent a day deeply enough in the bowels of the TextWidget
to find the calls I eventually used was because nothing else worked.

I agree with Chris - if it works now, do it right. But if whoever
asked that question had the same problems we had, the Bleh() function
may be the only solution.

-Miles O'Neal
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