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From: ndd@romeo.cs.duke.edu (Ned D. Danieley)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: resource conversion and XtInitialize in R3
Keywords: X11R3
Message-ID: <14415@duke.cs.duke.edu>
Date: 5 May 89 14:02:54 GMT
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I'm trying to make a text widget (asciiDiskWidgetClass) and
add a scroll bar to it. When I initialize X via

	XtToolkitInitialize();
	context = XtCreateApplicationContext();
	dpy = XtOpenDisplay(context, NULL, "test", "Test", NULL, 0,
		argc, argv);
	toplevel = XtAppCreateShell(NULL, NULL, applicationShellWidgetClass,
		dpy, NULL, NULL);

and make the text widget

	XtSetArg(args[0], XtNfile, (XtArgVal )tmp_file);
	XtSetArg(args[1], XtNeditType, XttextAppend);
	XtSetArg(args[2], XtNtextOptions, (XtArgVal )wordBreak|scrollVertical);

	foo = XtCreateManagedWidget("text", asciiDiskWidgetClass, parent,
		args, 3);

then running the program results in an X Toolkit error saying that
there isn't a converter for String to Orientation, and I don't get a
scrollbar. However, if I change the initialization to

	toplevel = XtInitialize("textTest", "Demo", NULL, NULL,
		argc, argv);
	dpy = XtDisplay(toplevel);

I don't get the error, and the scroll bar is fine. (I also change
from XtAppMainLoop(context) to XtMainLoop().) I've looked at the
code for XtInitialize, and I can't see any reason for this. Does
anyone know why this happens?


Ned Danieley (ndd@sunbar.mc.duke.edu)
Basic Arrhythmia Laboratory
Box 3140, Duke University Medical Center
Durham, NC  27710
(919) 684-6807 or 684-6942