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From: gram@uctcs.uucp (Graham Wheeler)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: More documentation errors in Athena Widgets
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Date: 3 Oct 90 14:06:06 GMT
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Reply-To: gram@uctcs.uucp (Graham Wheeler)
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I'm beginning to wonder about this Athena widget stuff. Maybe I should
write my own widget set (call it `Working Widgets'!). The functions
to read AsciiSrc and TextSrc text are described (at least the latter;
the formare isn't even mentioned in the manual) as returning 'the actual
number of characters read from the text buffer'. Even the comments on
the source code make this claim.

Well, its bullsh*t. In actual fact, what is returned is the offset into
the buffer of the last character read.

How many segmentation violations is it going to take....
Oh well, you get what you pay for 8-) (No offence meant to my hero
Richard Stallman!)

(BTW, I posted an earlier copy of this message which I hope I have
eliminated. If not, I apologise. I can't do a simple cancel as I
post over a LAN, and by the time the news server gets it I don't
own the article any more. So lots of panicky rm's by the administrator
are needed. Maybe one day we'll get round to figuring out how to
send control messages directly from the server!)

Finally, does anyone have an E-mail address to which I can post these
sort of errors, to prevent them reappearing in a future release?

Graham Wheeler		      |	"Don't bother me,
Data Network Architectures Lab|		I'm reading a `Crisis'!"
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