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From: dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: Setting Widget Resources
Message-ID: <1991Apr22.164910.12494@smsc.sony.com>
Date: 22 Apr 91 16:49:10 GMT
References: <1991Apr18.003956.6310@latcs2.lat.oz.au>
Sender: dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott)
Distribution: comp.windows.x.motif
Organization: Sony Microsystems, San Jose, CA
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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
|> 

From all the replies to this, maybe my code should become part of
the FAQ (or better yet, part of Motif 1.2!).

This code, which was basically stolen from the Athena Form widget, adds
a String to Window converter.  I wrote it as a general routine that I
call at the beginning of all of my programs, and made it so I could
add other converters as needed (like String to Unit Type ;-).

#include <X11/Intrinsic.h>
#include <X11/StringDefs.h>
#include <Xm/Xm.h>
#include <X11/Xmu/Converters.h>
#include <X11/IntrinsicP.h>
#include <X11/CoreP.h>

void
setupConverters()
{
	static XtConvertArgRec parentCvtArgs[] = {
		{XtBaseOffset, (caddr_t)XtOffset(Widget, core.parent),
			sizeof(Widget)}
	};

	XtAddConverter(XmRString, XmRWindow, XmuCvtStringToWidget,
		parentCvtArgs, XtNumber(parentCvtArgs));
}

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