Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!ATHENA.MIT.EDU!swick From: swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph R. Swick) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: lack of return value from Xtconvert Message-ID: <8807151532.AA02904@LYRE.MIT.EDU> Date: 15 Jul 88 15:32:22 GMT Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Organization: DEC/MIT Project Athena Lines: 10 Date: 15 Jul 88 05:41:32 GMT From: VIOLET.BERKELEY.EDU!rusty@ucbvax.berkeley.edu The problem is that the program uses XtConvert to convert from a color name to a pixel value: ... but XtConvert doesn't return anything, so the program has no way of knowing that the color map has been exhausted. If the conversion was not successful, the return value address will be NULL.