bil@WHEATIES.AI.MIT.EDU (Bill Rockenbeck) (12/08/87)
Thanks for the replies concerning Xtk on Suns. One more thing: Has anyone out there successfully used the Text widget? I would very much like to have an example of how it is supposed to work, before I hack too much. It doesn't have to be on a Sun: I'm willing to hack the server if need be. Thank you. Bill Rockenbeck, MIT Hand Lab
yakker@ucrmath.ucr.edu (matt robinson) (07/24/90)
I am having some difficulty using the text Widget provided in the Toolkit. Since the Dialog Widget did not offer what I needed, I decided to use a Text Widget to enter the text for the user. Unfortunately, I am running into some problems with using the Text Widget. O'Reilly only offers a few pages of only slightly descriptive information on the Widget, so I am hoping some programmers have a bit more insight on how to use the Widget. 1) While using an asciiStringWidgetClass, whenever I try to input text into the window, my entire window will freeze up, including the buttons and other text windows. I need to input the string into the window, and save the data into a (char *) when I am done. What's the best way to do this with the types asciiText, asciiString, and asciiDisk? 2) When I try to save data using the asciiText widget, how am I supposed to get the data from from widget? How should I initialize the widget so that I can retrieve data from the widget text window? If you have any information on this, I would really appreciate some E-mail, since most of my project (save a few final touches) depend on this. Thanks for your time, in advance. Matt D. Robinson UC Riverside, Systems Programming Group yakker@ucrmath.ucr.edu 3023yakk@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu