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From: sydorow@bisco.kodak.com (Steve Sydorowicz)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: Determining children widget IDs
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Date: 28 Dec 90 16:44:30 GMT
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grywalski@idicl1.idi.battelle.org writes:

>        There may be a simple answer to this question but I have consulted
>the FAQ and all the doc that I can get my hands on and have not been able to
>find it.  What is the best way to obtain a list of all the children of a widget
>like the Motif RowColumn widget?  DEC provided a DwtChildren call that
>returned a WidgetList given a CompositeWidget in it's toolkit. I have not been
>able to find a simular function under Motif.  Thanks in advance...

You can use XtSetArgs/XtGetValues setting up XmNchildren & XmNnumChildren.
These resources are inherited for any subclass of Composite and are of type
WidgetList (array) and Cardinal respectively. These resources are *READ-ONLY*,
so don't muck with 'em ;-)



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