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From: asente@adobe.com (Paul Asente)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: XmLabel question
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Date: 4 Sep 90 22:59:03 GMT
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In article <141712@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> argv@turnpike.Eng.Sun.COM (Dan Heller) writes:
>Because you are using the name
>of the widget itself as the label, the user's resource file would specify
>attributes about the widget using the label's name:
>
>    *label string.labelString: another label
>
>This means: all widgets that have the name "label string" should use a
>label string that says: "another label".

The rest of Dan's message is quite correct and contains some very useful
advice.  This bit, however, isn't quite right.  Space is not a legal character
in a resource specification, so the above line is not a valid resource
specification.

You're fine using the label's name as its text value as long as it contains
only letters and numbers; if it contains spaces or any punctutation characters
you should give it a different name and store the string in the application
defaults file (as above).

	-paul asente

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