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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
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     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.