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From: pasturel@sctc.com (Pierre Pasturel)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: XmTextSetString to remove text
Message-ID: <1991Jan31.151055.27119@sctc.com>
Date: 31 Jan 91 15:10:55 GMT
References: <1991Jan30.212031.3645@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>
Organization: SCTC
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escott@eos.ncsu.edu (Erik Scott) writes:

>(Motif 1.1, DEC PMAX (Mips-chip), MIT X11R4 Server)

>I have a multi-line text widget, called text, that contains a lot
>of text.  I would like to remove this text, so I try this:

>    erik[0]='\0';
>    XmTextSetInsertionPosition(text,0);
>    XmTextSetString(text, erik);

To clear a text, I simply do   XmTextSetString( text_widget, "" ),
although I don't see how this is different from yours.

I also have learned to do a few XFlush()'s when I want to make sure
the text gets refreshed immediately in a callback, followed by an
XmUpdateDisplay() call.

>And the text is still there.  It has the XmNeditable resc. set to True.

This should not matter. Setting it to TRUE simpley allows the User to
edit the text.  The application should always be able to as far as I know.


>erik scott   escott@eos.ncsu.edu


Pierre
pasturel@sctc.com