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From: ik@snoopy.ctt.bellcore.com (Ik Su Yoo)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif,bcr.motif
Subject: Is `userData' resource user settable?
Message-ID: <1991Mar6.182251.8322@bellcore.bellcore.com>
Date: 6 Mar 91 18:22:51 GMT
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Reply-To: ik@ctt.bellcore.com (Ik Su Yoo)
Organization: Bell Communications Research
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I would like to be able to set the userData resource to a string from
the resource database. (Using X11R4, Motif 1.1, and SunOS 4.1, if it
makes any difference.)

My first attempt at it generated a warning message:

  No type converter registered for 'String' to 'Pointer' conversion.

So, I wrote a type converter from XtRString to XtRPointer, and I can
now set the userData resource to a string. It looks to be this is
dangerous thing to do since the user is also allowed to arbitrarily
set other pointer-typed resources.

Is there a better way to allow the userData resource to be specified
in the resource database? Thanks for any help you can give me.

Ik Su Yoo
RRC 1H-229, (908) 699-5764
ik@ctt.bellcore.com