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From: yakker@ucrmath.ucr.edu (matt robinson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Text Widgets (Proper usage)
Message-ID: <7791@ucrmath.ucr.edu>
Date: 23 Jul 90 19:21:44 GMT
Sender: yakker@ucrmath.ucr.edu
Organization: University of California, Riverside
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I am having some difficulty using the text Widget provided
in the Toolkit.  Since the Dialog Widget did not offer what
I needed, I decided to use a Text Widget to enter the text
for the user.  Unfortunately, I am running into some problems
with using the Text Widget.  O'Reilly only offers a few pages
of only slightly descriptive information on the Widget, so
I am hoping some programmers have a bit more insight on how
to use the Widget.

1)  While using an asciiStringWidgetClass, whenever I try to
	input text into the window, my entire window will freeze
	up, including the buttons and other text windows.  I need
	to input the string into the window, and save the data into
	a (char *) when I am done.  What's the best way to do this
	with the types asciiText, asciiString, and asciiDisk?

2)  When I try to save data using the asciiText widget, how am
	I supposed to get the data from from widget?  How should I
	initialize the widget so that I can retrieve data from the 
	widget text window?

If you have any information on this, I would really appreciate
some E-mail, since most of my project (save a few final touches)
depend on this.  Thanks for your time, in advance.

Matt D. Robinson
UC Riverside, Systems Programming Group
yakker@ucrmath.ucr.edu
3023yakk@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu