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From: net@TUB.BITNET (Oliver Laumann)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Text widget question #3862195
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Date: 22 Feb 89 16:56:11 GMT
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I don't understand why it is possible to set the ``edit type''
resource of an AsciiDisk or AsciiString widget (i.e. by passing an
argument with the name XtNeditType to XtCreateWidget()).

Neither the AsciiDisk (or AsciiString) nor the Text widget class
declares such a resource, nor does a call to XtGetResourceList()
return an ``edit type'' resource.

It is obviously possible to set resources for a widget that are
neither defined in the widget's class nor in a super class nor
by the parent widget's constraints.  Is there a way for the
application programmer to obtain a list of these resources similar
to XtGetResourceList() for ``normal'' resources?  Don't tell me
``by looking at the source code''; I want to get a list of
resources from within a program.

Thanks,
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Oliver Laumann              net@TUB.BITNET              net@tub.UUCP