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From: mazer@bek-owl.caltech.edu (Jamie Mazer)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Changing Widgets
Summary: is this another RTFM question?
Keywords: Xaw XtSetValues() changing-resource-values
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Date: 6 Jul 90 03:29:22 GMT
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Reply-To: mazer@bek-owl.caltech.edu (Jamie Mazer)
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This may be an obvious question, but I can't seem to figure out
how to tell which resources can be changed on the fly for a
given athena widget. To be precise, in a label widget, I can
reverse it and change the text as follows:
    WidgetSet(someLabelWidget,
	      XtNlabel, (String) p,
	      XtNforeground, (Pixel) background,
	      XtNbackground, (Pixel) foreground, NULL);
On the other hand, why can't I do the following:
	WidgetSet(someTextWidget,
		  XtNeditType, XttextRead,
		  XtNborderWidth, (Dimension) 0, NULL);
to make a text widget lose it's border and become read only?

It looks like it should work from the Xaw docs, but seems to
have no effect (it doesn't seem to have anything to do with
using WidgetWrap :-). Am I missing something obvious that's
in the doc?

Please reply to me, as I'm have trouble keeping up with the
volume of comp.windows.x these days. Thanks a lot.
/Jamie
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