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From: curtiss@truffula.umiacs.umd.edu (Phil J. Curtiss)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Problems with Athena Dialog Widget in R4
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Date: 10 Jan 91 01:22:58 GMT
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I am trying to set the length resource of the text widget named `value' that is
a child of a Dialog widget from the resource file of an application I am 
writting . I can not seem to specify the appropriate resource. I can specify
things like:

	*priceDialog.label:		Item Price:
	*priceDialog.label.background:	black
	*priceDialog.label.foreground:	white

which works nicely on the child widget of the priceDialog widget name `label'.
However, if I try something like,

	*priceDialog.value:		$ 0.00
	*priceDialog.value.length:	10

there does not seem to be any effect. That is to say that the user can type
in more than 10 characters in the value part of the dialog. 

	Ultimately, I am looking for a way of restricting the number of 
characters a user may type into the value part of a dialog widget without
having to muck around with actions.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.
					Phil!
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