Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!ucbvax!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU!kit From: kit@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Chris D. Peterson) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: What is a widget? Message-ID: <8908171656.AA23587@expo.lcs.mit.edu> Date: 17 Aug 89 16:56:00 GMT References: <20750@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 16 The Xt Intrinsics define a widget as (section 1.3): The fundamental abstraction and data types of the X Toolkit is a "widget", which is a combination of an X window and its associated sematics and which is dynamically allocated and contains state information. Logically, a widget is a rectangle with associated input/output semantics.... See the Xt Specification for further details. Chris D. Peterson MIT X Consortium Net: kit@expo.lcs.mit.edu Phone: (617) 253 - 9608 Address: MIT - Room NE43-213