Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!mailrus!husc6!bloom-beacon!WSL.DEC.COM!asente From: asente@WSL.DEC.COM Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: String --> Pixel conversions Message-ID: <8805271653.AA29545@gilroy.dec.com> Date: 27 May 88 16:53:05 GMT References: <5059@eagle.ukc.ac.uk> Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 5 It's ok to call XtDirectConvert on your own converters, but XtConvert is the preferred interface. It takes a value, source type, and destination type and looks up the appropriate conversion routine. The names of the internal conversion routines are private. -paul asente