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From: kit@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Chris D. Peterson)
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Subject: Re: help with athena text widget
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Date: 18 Aug 89 15:45:21 GMT
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> Can someone please take the time to tell me why the following simple peace
> of code won't work. 

Because the text widget DOES NOT SUPPORT retrieving the font with XtGetValues.
This is a bug, and I hope to fix it soon, but I am really busy.  

[ Don't bother sending code on this one, the "right" fix requires some 
  functionality that is not defined in R3. ]

> The documentation (ha ha) from MIT on athena widgets mentions something about
> not being able to return the font resource with XtTextGetValue() but
> nothing about XtGetValues().

XtTextGetValues is a typo it should read XtGetValues.  This documentation bug is
left over from X11 Beta.

						Chris D. Peterson     
						MIT X Consortium 

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