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From: kit@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Chris D. Peterson)
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Subject: Re: prob with some resources in /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/<class> file
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> I'm having similar problems with Athena text widget
> resources, although I have not yet been able to verify if this is
> related to one particular text resource such as textOptions, or if it
> is related to all text resources.

The Text widget is a little unique with respect to resources.

1) Several of the resources operate on the Sink or Source assocaited with the
   text widget.  This means that "foo*Text.font" will not work, you should use
   "foo*Text*font".  The documentation is unclear as to which resources are
   properties of the source or sink, so you may have to experiment a little, in
   99% of the cases it is safe to always use "Text*<resource name>."

2) TextOptions does not have a converter to convert strings to TextOptions, so
   there is no way to specify text options in a resource file.

Both of these problems will be fixed in R4.  #1 with documentation, and #2 with
new code.


						Chris D. Peterson     
						MIT X Consortium 

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