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From: beser@tron.UUCP (Eric Beser)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: help with mouse select
Keywords: mouse select word
Message-ID: <459@tron.UUCP>
Date: 27 Nov 89 13:17:35 GMT
Organization: Westinghouse Electronic Systems Group, Baltimore, MD, USA
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 I am in need of help with this programming problem, and at risk
of showing my ignorance, let me state the problem:

I want to show a file on the x-display in a browser window (I've
done this ok so far), but I want to point to an arbitrary word
in the window at an arbitrary location, click the mouse, and have
the callback routine return the word (anything delimited by  two
spaces /or space and \nl, into some variable. I have been researching
this problem looking at code samples, looking at all the x books I
can get my hands on, etc. and due to my complete inexperience with
X, I can't find what I am looking for.

Can someone please take pity on me and either point me to a reference
that has this, or show me some sample code that will do what I want. I'm
sure that this is possible (in my own naivety), only my inexperience is
getting in the way.

Thanks so much for whatever help I can get.

E. Beser
Westinghouse Aerospace Software                      beser@tron.UUCP
(301) 765 - 1010