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From: swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph Swick)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Determining cursor location in Text widget
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Date: 9 Aug 90 12:59:50 GMT
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The position of the cursor (in characters) is available as
the resource XtNinsertPosition and via the public routine
XawTextGetInsertionPoint().  None of the Text public
interfaces talk in units of lines, which I suspect is
what you'd prefer.

It sounds to me as though your problem could be solved
by retrieving the XtNfont, XtNtopMargin and XtNheight
resources and doing a simple calculation.