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From: kit@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Chris D. Peterson)
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Subject: Re: Widget Client data (info request)
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> 	I was under the impression that one could associate a client data
> field with a widget (ala Suntools). Is there such a thing?

There is no way to do this directly.  You can, however, use the X Context
Manager to associated data with a widget id.  Kind of a hack, but it will work.

See Gettys, Scheifler and Newman section 10.12.


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