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From: asente@adobe.com (Paul Asente)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: XtSetArg for Setting colour to widget?
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Date: 2 Nov 90 07:18:16 GMT
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In article <7246.27309166@swift.cs.tcd.ie> gteo@swift.cs.tcd.ie writes:
>When I try to set the background or foreground colour for
>a widget, for example, a label using the following,
>
>	XtSetArg(arg[i],XtNbackground, "blue"); i++;
>	...
>	XtSetValues(label, arg,i);

The XtNbackground resource takes a Pixel value, not a string.  Either
invoke a type converter to convert the string to a pixel value (i.e.
XtConvertAndStore in R4, XtConvert in R3) or use the new varargs interface
XtVaSetValues and use an XtVaTypedArg.

My recently-published book has an extensive section on this.  I recommend
it highly :-).

	-paul asente
		asente@adobe.com	...decwrl!adobe!asente