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From: bonnett@seismo.CSS.GOV (H. David Bonnett)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: Setting Widget Resources
Message-ID: <49576@seismo.CSS.GOV>
Date: 21 Apr 91 17:59:33 GMT
References: <1991Apr18.003956.6310@latcs2.lat.oz.au>
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In article <1991Apr18.003956.6310@latcs2.lat.oz.au>, arthur@latcs2.lat.oz.au (Arthur Proestakis) writes:
|> Can all the resources of a widget be set in a resource file?
|> 
|> I am trying to do the following in a resource file:
|> 
|>         app*widget.bottomAttachment: ATTACH_WIDGET
|>         app*widget.bottomWidget: bottom_widget
|> 
|> and the error I get is:
|> 
|>         X Toolkit Warning: Cannot convert string "bottom_widget" to type Widget
|> 
|> "bottom_widget" does exist in the program, therefore should I assume
|> this can't be done?

The problem with this is that the attachment argument for BottomWidget
expects to get a Widget Pointer, not the Name of the widget. It would be nice
if there were and conversion routine to allow for this, but there is not one at
present (and I am not sure that it that the process is meant to handle conversion
to values not resolvable at program startup. Any ideas?)  Doug Young mentions
this problem in his book.

I end up setting these in the code through XtSetArgs.

Hope this helps,

--
-dave bonnett-   Center for Seismic Studies;  Arlington, VA 
      bonnett@seismo.css.gov :  All standard disclaimers apply.