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From: asente@decwrl.dec.com (Paul Asente)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Getting ID for widget loaded from .uid? (Motif)
Message-ID: <2427@bacchus.dec.com>
Date: 10 Jan 90 19:09:17 GMT
References: <223@uucs1.UUCP> <1990Jan10.172318.20172@athena.mit.edu>
Organization: DEC Western Software Lab
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In article <1990Jan10.172318.20172@athena.mit.edu> bjaspan@athena.mit.edu (Barr3y Jaspan) writes:
>1) XtNameToWidget takes a widget and a list of names of children and
>returns the widget ID of the last child in the list.  For example,
>suppose you have the widget tree 
>
>             foo
>           bar  baz
>         quux
>
>Then XtNameToWidget(foo, "bar.quux") would return the ID of "quux." 
>Presumably the ID of "foo" comes from MrmFetchHierarchy().

When Motif goes R4 you can also use wildcarding, a la
XtNameToWidget(foo, "*quux")
This is a useful thing to keep in mind even though you can't do it yet
since it frees the application from having to know as much about the
widget tree (one of the main reasons for using UIL in the first place).

	-paul asente
	    asente@decwrl.dec.com	decwrl!asente