Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!ucsd!ucsdhub!hp-sdd!hplabs!hpda!hp-sde!hpfcdc!hpfclp!diamant From: diamant@hpfclp.SDE.HP.COM (John Diamant) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Athena text widgets Message-ID: <9740040@hpfclp.SDE.HP.COM> Date: 15 Jul 88 03:11:36 GMT References: <6190@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> Organization: HP SDE, Fort Collins, CO Lines: 17 > I'm using the Athena widgets in an X application, and I'm having some trouble > with the text widget. I would like to display some text in the widget, and > subsequently change the text from time to time. It doesn't like it when > I try to change XtNstring, and if I directly change the string that > XtNstring refers to, nothing happens. Does anyone know the right thing > to do? Are you changing it to something larger than it was originally. If I remember correctly, the text widget sets the maximum size to the initial string and only allocates that much space. You probably have to set the maximum size larger (when you create the widget) before initializing the string to a particular value. John Diamant Software Development Environments Hewlett-Packard Co. ARPA Internet: diamant@hpfclp.sde.hp.com Fort Collins, CO UUCP: {hplabs,hpfcla}!hpfclp!diamant