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From: swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph R. Swick)
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Subject: Re: Xt questions
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Date: 3 Dec 89 21:17:59 GMT
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    Date: Sun, 3 Dec 89 13:11:23 EST
    From: Karl Berry <karl%claude.umb.edu@RELAY.CS.NET>

    (1) Is a list of the widgets in the standard distribution available
    somewhere?

What do you mean by "the standard distribution"?  For the MIT X11R3
distribution, most of the contents of lib/Xaw are documented in
doc/Xaw.  Some of the less general-purpose widgets (e.g. Clock, Load)
are only documented in the header files, so...

    Poking
    through the include files unearths some useful information

and is a perfectly reasonable thing to do, particularly w.r.t. the
public header files.

    but I don't
    feel confident that I won't overlook something.

Well, we've tried hard to make both the documentation and the
comments in the public header file reflect reality.  The resources
documented in the header files should be accurate.

    (2) Are the standard arguments available as a macro or variable?

Not sure what you mean.  StringDefs.h defines all XtN..., XtC...,
XtR... as macros.

    (3) Is the R4 Toolkit manual going to have an index? (i.e., I'm putting
    in a request that it does!)

I certainly plan so.  The R3 distribution contained an an index, too
(and the Makefile to build it from the doc sources).  My condolences
if you've been working without it; it's most definitely available...