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From: gildea@expo.lcs.mit.EDU (Stephen Gildea)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Writing text to a widget
Message-ID: <9102060240.AA06662@excalibur.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: 6 Feb 91 02:40:43 GMT
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    From: brp@dino.berkeley.edu (Bruce Raoul Parnas)

		      i would like to output information to the user (much as
    one would  do with printf statements) and have it displayed in a widget,
    any widget.  the Athena text widget is much more than i need.


Perhaps the Label widget is what you want.  You can use XtSetValues to
update the text displayed.  And as of R4, you can display multiple
lines of text.

However, think carefully about whether the Text widget isn't what you
really want.  If you use Label, your users won't be able to cut text
out of your window.  If you're going to keep the information on the
screen for very long, that is not very social...

 < Stephen
   MIT X Consortium