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From: swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph R. Swick)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: TextWidgets the athena way
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Date: 17 Oct 88 19:02:09 GMT
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> Setting XtNdisplayPosition doesn't seem to work.

fixed in R3.

> Secondly, how can I find out how wide the scrollbar attached to a
> particluar text widget is?

not easily.  One hack would be to query the resource database, using the
instance name "scrollbar" and hope you get the same answer that
Scrollbar did when Text created it.  Since R2 didn't give you a handle
on the resource database, you're stuck 'till R3.

> If I set "prog*TextSink.Font"
> that works fine but "prog*Name.TextSink.Font" doesn't

also fixed in R3.