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From: anderson@rubato.lbl.gov
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: writing Widgets with Float resources
Message-ID: <13743@dog.ee.lbl.gov>
Date: 30 May 91 23:05:02 GMT
Reply-To: anderson@rubato.lbl.gov ()
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley CA
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X-Local-Date: Thu, 30 May 91 16:05:02 PDT


I have started to write a few Motif widgets (subclassing Primitive,
for instance), and have things working fine as long as various
resources are "ints" (XmRInt type resources).  But I need them
to be "floats"  (XmRFloat types).

It appears that no matter what I try, XtSetValues passes junk
as the float;  as soon as I get into my SetValues function and
take a look at what is passed, I get some bizarre value.  This
does not occur when the resource file is read and values are
assigned - from the resource file everything is fine; only when
I do the XtSetValues programmatically do I have this trouble...

I've searched all the commercial and PD widgets out there that I
have had access to, and no one seems to have a working example.
I don't want to have to pass it in as a string...

My development environment is X11R4 and Motif 1.1 from DEC on a
DECstation 5000.


Has anyone successfully created a widget of their own using some
float resources?  I find it a bit odd that even OSF doesn't seem
to have any.


Thanks for any help or advice you can lend.

	Mark Anderson
	anderson@rubato.lbl.gov
	anderson@rhea.aps.anl.gov