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From: carl@quad1.quad.com (Carl Priddy)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: the "text" of an XmText Widget
Summary: text widget value resource
Message-ID: <14342@gouda.quad.com>
Date: 14 Aug 90 18:41:28 GMT
References: <140523@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Organization: Quadratron Systems Inc, Thousand Oaks Ca
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From postnews Tue Aug 14 11:27:10 1990
In article <140523@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>, argv@turnpike.Eng.Sun.COM (Dan Heller) writes:
> 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?

Dan,
No you do NOT need to keep it around any longer. I believe, although I am not
sure and have no hope of finding it documented anywhere, that all widgets that
have string resources make copies of those strings. I too have experienced no
problems after free'ing up the memory that contained them after I have set
the values in the widgets.
As to whether or not the widgets do the appropriate alloc and frees, one can
only hope.
I notice that you are from O'Reilly & Co. I am counting on you guys to provide
relief for the Motif documentation vacuum. Good luck.
carl.