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From: crouch@crunchie.axion.bt.co.uk (the man whose head expanded)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: athena text widget question
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Date: 27 Sep 89 17:44:19 GMT
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Organisation: British Telecom Research Labs, Martlesham Heath, IPSWICH UK

Hi,

I'm having problems with the athena text widget. What I want to do is to
display an empty text widget to begin with and later on display the contents
of a file in it.

At the moment I'm using asciiDiskWidgetClass and setting XtNfile to
/dev/null. This quite happily creates an empty widget. However I can't work
out how to later display a file in it. I suspect I should use
XtSetTextSource(), but I can't work out how to get from the filename to the
structure that XtSetTextSource requires.

Anybody have any suggestions, pointers to manual pages or better still
examples? Any help greatly received.

Alternatively if anyone can tell me how to do the same thing using
asciistringWidgetClass, that would also be appreaciated.

Thanks,

Chris
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Chris Rouch                                              crouch@axion.bt.co.uk
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