Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!ucsd!rutgers!apple!bloom-beacon!ATHENA.MIT.EDU!swick From: swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph R. Swick) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Problem with Athena asciiStringWidget Message-ID: <8809191206.AA06885@LYRE.MIT.EDU> Date: 19 Sep 88 12:05:57 GMT References: <3439@homxc.UUCP> Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Organization: DEC/MIT Project Athena Lines: 20 Date: 16 Sep 88 13:38:15 GMT From: att!whuts!homxb!homxc!fmg@bloom-beacon.mit.edu (F.GOLDSTEIN) I am trying to get the font information from the widget. I am assuming that this is possible (the documentation lists XtNfont as a resource). Well, just because something is listed as a resource doesn't mean XtGetValues will return it to you. (C.F. asente, 17 Sep 88 00:56:48 GMT, 'Re: Clarification of "passing widget args to subwidgets"'.) Apparently there is no such thing as a FontInfo* as the docs say, but XFontStruct does exist. You are correct. This is a documentation error. All attempts have given me null pointers to the font. This is a bug in the Ascii*Widgets. There is no reasonable workaround at present.