Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!eagle!rlh2
From: rlh2@eagle.ukc.ac.uk (Richard Hesketh)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Athena text widgets
Message-ID: <5397@eagle.ukc.ac.uk>
Date: 22 Jul 88 10:25:10 GMT
References: <6190@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: rlh2@ukc.ac.uk (Richard Hesketh)
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In article <6190@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> dschmidt@athena.mit.edu (Dan Schmidt) writes:
>I'm using the Athena widgets in an X application, and I'm having some trouble
>with the text widget.  I would like to display some text in the widget, and
>subsequently change the text from time to time.  It doesn't like it when
>I try to change XtNstring, and if I directly change the string that
>XtNstring refers to, nothing happens.  Does anyone know the right thing
>to do?
>

I use this work-around but surely there is a better way?

String newtext; /* the new text to replace existing text */
Widget dialog; /* the text widget (I use asciiStringWidgetClass) */

XtSetArg(args[i], XtNstring, newtext); i++;
XtStringSourceDestroy(XtTextGetSource(dialog));
XtTextSetSource(dialog, XtStringSourceCreate(XtParent(dialog), (ArgList)args, i), 0);

Richard