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From: schoeller@4gl.enet.dec.com (Dick Schoeller)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Getting ID for widget loaded from .uid? (Motif)
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Date: 10 Jan 90 15:18:55 GMT
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Reply-To: schoeller@4gl.enet.dec.com (Dick Schoeller)
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> 
> I can't believe there isn't a simple, approved way to do this, but can't
> see one for the life of me.
> 
> I fetch a tree of widgets from my .uid file, and need the widget ID of
> some of them so I can twiddle their resources on the fly.  Trouble is,
> I can't see a way of finding the widget ID.
> 

Try making setting up a create callback for each of the widgets whose IDs
you want to record.  The create callback is a only available through uil since
it is really called by mrm not the widget itself.

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