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From: carl@quad1.quad.com (Carl Priddy)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: XmText and arbitrary text additions
Summary: adding to the text widget
Keywords: Motif, XmText
Message-ID: <13981@gouda.quad.com>
Date: 11 Jul 90 17:08:18 GMT
References: <861@airgun.wg.waii.com>
Organization: Quadratron Systems Inc, Thousand Oaks Ca
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It is the programmers responsibilty to maintain a copy of the text which
he initially sets as the XmNvalue resource of the text widget. The text
widget makes a copy of it which it then uses for it's own editing. The
text widget callback routines can be used to fetch a copy of the (possibly)
modified text. If you wish to edit the text yourself (you being programmer),
then do so with your internal version, and use XtSetValues to redefine the
XmNvalue resource of your text widget.
Hope this helps. FYI, I have just finished writing an X/Motif word processor,
and ended up using the DrawingArea widget and doing my own scrolling, etc.
becuase the Text widget apparently carries with it a LOT of overhead.

carl priddy QSI (Quadratron Systems, Inc)