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From: mikey@eukanuba.wpd.sgi.com (Mike Yang)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: Getting widget values in uil application
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Date: 3 Aug 90 16:17:38 GMT
References: <1990Aug3.055404.2995@motcad.portal.com>
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In article <1990Aug3.055404.2995@motcad.portal.com>,
jtc@motcad.portal.com (J.T. Conklin) writes:
|> What is the proper way to get the value of widget declared in a .uil
|> file.  I need to get it for arguments to XtSetsensitive() during the
|> program's execution.
|> 
|> At present, I am recording the value of the widgets I need via creation
|> callbacks, but this seems a bit gross.  Is there a better way?

This is the method used by the Motif demos and seems like the way to
go.  An alternative is to use XtNameToWidget, but this doesn't seem
any better.

It really is too bad that uil can't share a C header file so that
there isn't a dependency between the uil constant declarations and C
constants.

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                 Mike Yang        Silicon Graphics, Inc.
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