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From: swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph R. Swick)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: AsciiString Widget behaviour
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Date: 13 Sep 88 15:01:31 GMT
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     Date:  12 Sep 88 19:50:52 GMT
     From:  okstate!romed!drd!mark@rutgers.edu  (Mark Lawrence)

     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?

The Xaw/AsciiString widget chooses not to copy the client-supplied
string, but rather to use it in-place.  This behavior is not likely
to change (and will be better documented sometime :-).