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From: kit@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Chris D. Peterson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Converting arguments
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Date: 24 Apr 89 19:15:47 GMT
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[ trantor.harris-atd.com!mac@sdcsvax.ucsd.edu (Mike McDonald) writes: ]

>   In my application, I'm trying to set a widgets arguments given a
> string containing the ascii representation. (They user typed in the 
> value.) XtSetValues() doesn't do me any good since it wants the value
> and not its printed representation...

Use XtConvert() to get the value in the right format then XtSetValues() to set
the value into the widget.

                                                Chris D. Peterson
                                                MIT X Consortium