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Subject: Re: Does the Athena Form widget work under X11/R3
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Date: 22 Aug 90 21:39:43 GMT
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> Have been yet unable to coerce the Athena Form widget into properly
> placing its children relative to one another.
> This is the error message above program produces:
> 
> X Toolkit Warning: Cannot convert string "quit" to type Widget

With this resource specification:

	*pressme*fromHoriz:	quit

the Form widget tries to find the widget named "quit" at the time that
it is creating (not realizing) the widget named "pressme".  That is 
the problem.  This is considered a bug in the Athena Form widget, and
this behavior persists in R4.  To accomodate this bug, you must make
sure that any widgets referenced on the right hand side of these
constraint resource specifications have already been created at the 
time that the resource is read.  The resource is read at the time of
widget creation.  In this case, create the "quit" widget before the 
"pressme" widget.


Donna Converse