Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!usc!bloom-beacon!EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU!kit From: kit@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Chris D. Peterson) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: help with athena text widget Message-ID: <8908181545.AA07443@expo.lcs.mit.edu> Date: 18 Aug 89 15:45:21 GMT References: <4015@ncar.ucar.edu> Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 23 > 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 Net: kit@expo.lcs.mit.edu Phone: (617) 253 - 9608 Address: MIT - Room NE43-213