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From: ssroy@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Steve Scot Roy)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: simple text widget question
Keywords: text,widget
Message-ID: <6444@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 16 Feb 89 17:38:11 GMT
Organization: Princeton University, NJ
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I have a question about text widgets that should be easy.

If I create a text widget without an initial string it creates its own
buffer and handles it itself.  How do I get at the text in the buffer? I
tried XtGetValues for XtNstring but I got a null pointer back.  Is this
a bug? Am I overlooking a routine in the manual for this?  If it is a
bug, how do you work around it and when will it be fixed? Sorry if this
has been answered before, but I need this and I'm stumped.

Steve Roy
ssr@courant.princeton.edu