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From: pjs@PLATO.JPL.NASA.GOV (Peter Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Widget command line parsing
Message-ID: <8905020016.AA00413@plato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>
Date: 2 May 89 00:16:26 GMT
Organization: The Internet
Lines: 15

I entered the program on page 14 of the _X Toolkit Athena Widgets_ manual,
which defines a button widget that lets you know when it's been pressed.
Unless I misunderstand considerably, the lines

  static XrmOptionDescRec options[] = {
  { "-label", "*button.label", XrmoptionSepArg, NULL}
  };

imply that I can set the label for the button from the command line.
Nothing doing!  I have tried "sample -label newlabel" and variations on
"sample -xrm 'sample*button.label newlabel'", and while it doesn't
always signal incorrect syntax it has never changed the label from that
specified in the XtCreateManagedWidget() call.  What am I missing?

Peter Scott (pjs@grouch.jpl.nasa.gov)