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To: motif%alphalpha.com%ukc.ac.uk@cl.cam.ac.uk
Subject: Re:  Trying to create a widget with a 'double' or 'float' resource.
Cc: thp@westhawk

Doug Selph <cae780!digger> on the difficulty of using doubles as resources
> And don't come responding to me that you have to pass the 
> 'address of a double or...'

Ok I won't, but many resources are passed by reference, strings, structures
etc. It is a weakness of Xt, but there you go.
 
> define my own 'DblArg' and 'AxisSetDblValues'

This won't help you with the (many) other ways resources get values.
You might as well dispense with the pretence and write a function, say
SetAxis(widget,axis,value) .

Tim.
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