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From: mark@drd.UUCP (Mark Lawrence)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: AsciiString Widget behaviour
Message-ID: <278@drd.UUCP>
Date: 12 Sep 88 19:50:52 GMT
Reply-To: mark@drd.UUCP (Mark Lawrence)
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I just discovered something that sort of surprised me about AsciiString
widgets.

I created a matrix of stringwidgets in a form.  I created a matrix of
strings:

	static char *cellstrings[MAXCOLUMNS][MAXROWS]

which I used to init my widgets thus:

	n = 0;
	XtSetArg(arg[n],XtNstring,cellstrings[i][j]); n++;
	XtSetArg(arg[n],XtNlength,strlen(cellstrings[i][j])); n++;
	XtSetArg(arg[n],XtNeditType,XttextEdit); n++
	cell[i][j] = XtCreateManagedWidget("cell", asciiStringWidgetClass,
						form, arg, n);

When I run the application and edit a cell, I discover that the editted
text shows up in my cellstrings matrix.  I assumed that I would have to
query widget state via XtGetValues to get at the editted string.  Can I
depend on the behaviour I've observed or is the latter the canonical way
to go about it?

			Mark
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