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From: swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph R. Swick)
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Subject: Re: Getting the value of a text widget (Athena style)
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Date: 28 Sep 88 12:17:14 GMT
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> 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.