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From: daf@mbunix.mitre.org (Dennis Franciskovich)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: XmLabel question
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Date: 29 Aug 90 15:53:19 GMT
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(I am using Motif 1.0 under R4 on a VAXstation 3100)

I have a question about the proper way to create an XmLabel widget.
The widget has the XmNlabelString resource, which can be used to specify
the label string.  However, if this resource is not set, the label seems
to use the name of the widget as the label string.  For example, I've
been using the following function call:

XmCreateLabel(parent, "label string", NULL, 0);

This works fine with no apparent problem.  My question is, is this a
bad thing to do?  This is related to another discovery I made:
I accidentally left out the last two arguments,

XmCreateLabel(parent, "label string");

and this also worked with no error at either compilation or run time.
Any comments?

--
Dennis