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From: glasgow@POPEYE.NOSC.MIL (Michael Glasgow)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Problems using the TextWidget
Message-ID: <8901242116.AA19688@popeye.nosc.mil.sun.com>
Date: 24 Jan 89 21:16:27 GMT
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I am having trouble with text widgets.

I am currently using the HP Widget Set that runs
under the Release 2 Toolkit, but am running an
Release 3 server.  This is running on a Sun 4/280
under Sun OS 4.0 if that is relevant.

Anyway, I can not seem to figure out how to get
text out of a text widget.  I set up the initial
string with the following code:

strcpy( string, "This is a Test." );
XtSetArg( args[nargs], XtNstring, ( XtArgVal )string );
...

Then i created the widget.  The widget came up fine, and I
assumed that the widget would store the modified string in
the char variable that I passed as a parameter.  Obviously,
this is not the case.  As I edit the string, the char array
is never changed in the array, but is altered on the screen.

How do I get the new string out of the widget?  This question
applies to not only the HP widgets, but the Athena Widgets as
well.

michael
glasgow@popeye.nosc.mil
Michael Glasgow
Tiburon Systems, Inc.
4025 Hancock St.  Suite 207
San Diego, CA 92110
(619)-581-0634