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From: cc@sam.cs.cmu.edu (Chiun-Hong Chien)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Widget questions
Keywords: dialogWidget
Message-ID: <8037@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 17 Feb 90 18:08:54 GMT
Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI
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I am trying to create multiple x-windows (xterms) from a program for
printing-out/reading-in different types of messages (e.g. warning message,
error message, standard I/0).  I think X toolkit Widgets will do the job I
need.  So I decided to use textWidgets and dialogWidgets.

As a beginning of the Widget user, I am not sure how to use dialogWidgets.
What I need is to "gets" a string into a buffer when the string is typed
into the dialog window along with a carriage return (just like a regular
gets() does).  I understand that I may be able to use
XtDialogGetValueString, but I don't know how the Xserver can inform the
dialog Widget that the string has been typed in.  I tried to use the
client callback interface, but couldn't find the appropriate resourse in the
dialog resource database listed in the X11/R3 X Toolkit Athena Widgets
Manual (yes, I am still using X11/R3).

Could anybody tell me how do use dialogWidgets to achieve what I need?  Of
course I would also appreicate if anybody could show me a better way to
achieve what I need (i.e. using multiple windows for various messages in a
program) using something other than textWidget and dialogWidget.

Thanks in advance.

Chien  (cc@sam.cs.cmu.edu)