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From: argv@turnpike.Eng.Sun.COM (Dan Heller)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: the "text" of an XmText Widget
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Date: 11 Aug 90 20:17:07 GMT
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Perhaps someone from osf and can answer this:
When you set the text widget's "value", you don't need to keep
around it's memory any longer, do you?  I'm reasonably sure
it copies it into internal data space, but I can't find anywhere
in the source that does it.  I do see places where it's copied
into _temporary_ internal buffers but not into permanent space.

The example programs that set the text's value use allocated
space and they never free it, but:
    1) they never get the previous text and free it before assigning
	the new text -- does XmText do that automatically?
    2) I tried freeing the text immediately after setting the text's
	value and it works fine in many programs.  I haven't seen a
	problem.  Does this mean that my assumption is right that
	the XmText widget copies and manages its own text?

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dan
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