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From: kit@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Chris D. Peterson)
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Subject: Re: What is a widget?
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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     
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