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From: swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph R. Swick)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Problem using Text Widget (Was XGDB error)
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Date: 19 Jan 89 20:56:08 GMT
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>The Athena Widget documentation says that the src and sink need
>to be supplied at creation time of the Text Widget,

It's just possible that the documentation lies.  You should be able
to create a Text widget without a source and/or sink as long as
you provide both before the widget is realized.  If you provide them
via XtSetValues, you'll have to provide both source and sink in
the same call (i.e. SetValues will fail if either source or sink
is missing).