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From: kit@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Chris D. Peterson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Xdefaults
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Date: 21 Feb 90 23:19:31 GMT
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> I have a simple graphics program that plots points of lines.
> However, when i run it I get this message:

> X Toolkit Warning: Form: The reference widget was not found.
> X Toolkit Warning: Form: The reference widget was not found.

> despite the fact that I appear to have taken care of that in my .Xdefaults
> file. 

What is probabally happening is that the Form widget's string to widget
converter is searching all children of the form for a widget named by your
resource string, and that widget hasn't been created yet.

For instance this would cause that problem:

	XtCreateWidget("number1", form...);
	XtCreateWidget("number2", form...);

	*number1*xRefName:	number2

Since number2 has not been created when number1 is trying to convert its
resources you end up with an error message.

						Chris D. Peterson     
						MIT X Consortium 

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