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From: kit@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris D. Peterson)
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Subject: Re: Athena dialog widget error?
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Date: 23 Mar 89 17:44:41 GMT
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> I'm running release 3 on a Sun 3/260. When I try to *change* the 
> original value of the label in a dialog widget using XtSetValues I get 
> a core dump. 

This is a know bug in the Dialog widget.

> Although I've seen nothing in the MIT documentation to 
> lead me to believe otherwise I assume that ALL widget resources are 
> subject to modification via XtSetValues.

That is true, all resource are settable, unless it is explicately stated
otherwise, in any case it shouldn't dump core.  

						Chris D. Peterson     
						MIT X Consortium /
						Project Athena 

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