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From: moo@uts.amdahl.com (Chris Halpin)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: How do I load the cursor font AS A FONT?
Keywords: font, widget
Message-ID: <ddN1020te7l101@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Date: 16 Nov 90 23:20:02 GMT
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
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I'm posting this question for a friend of mine who is not
able to post from his site. Please reply here or to him:

    uunet!pbs.org!npri6!eric

Eric writes:

> I'm faced with creating my own text widget. (Actually, I intend to paint
> over an existing toolkit widget.) I need an I-beam marker for the
> insertion point. I found one in the standard cursor font. The question is:
> How do I load the cursor font AS A FONT? The name does not look like
> your standard X font name (just "CURSOR", not "-Cursor-ITC Blech-etc.")
> I'm afraid (although I haven't tried it yet) that if I look it up or
> load it, something will explode. Am I paranoid? Will the X layer know
> what I'm talking about? Yours truly & thanks in advance.
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Chris Halpin
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