Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!ATHENA.MIT.EDU!swick From: swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph R. Swick) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Getting the value of a text widget (Athena style) Message-ID: <8809281217.AA14925@LYRE.MIT.EDU> Date: 28 Sep 88 12:17:14 GMT References: <870@hub.ucsb.edu> Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Organization: DEC/MIT Project Athena Lines: 8 > Again, an easy question: Again, an easy answer. If you allocate storage and pass the string into the Xaw/asciiStringWidget, it will keep only the pointer to your string, not a copy of the contents of the string. Therefore, the data is always available to you. You can pass the string pointer to your callback procedure through the client_data argument.