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From: aw@BAE.BELLCORE.COM (Andrew Wason)
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Subject: Re: Setting Widget Resources
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Date: 21 Apr 91 21:57:03 GMT
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rthur@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu (Arthur Proestakis) writes:
> Can all the resources of a widget be set in a resource file?

Only those resources for which a String to 'resource type' converter
has been registered.

> I am trying to do the following in a resource file:
> 
>         app*widget.bottomAttachment: ATTACH_WIDGET
>         app*widget.bottomWidget: bottom_widget

In this case the resource type is XtRWidget and no String to Widget
converter has been registered.

Wcl (available on export) provides the converter you need.

Andrew

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Andrew Wason                                       Bell Communications Research
aw@bae.bellcore.com                                Piscataway, NJ
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