max@gide.uchicago.edu (Max Ziff) (07/30/89)
I am new to X programming and have some naive questions about extending widget libraries. I am not afraid to read the manual, but I hope someone can point me in the right direction. I want something that behaves like an Athena text widget, but instead of using a disk file or a string in memory for source, I want to write my own text source, implemented by calls to a database server. I have looked at DiskSrc.c in the the Athena widgets distribution, and it seems that it would be quite easy to rewrite it using my database server calls instead of Unix filesystem reads. What more do I need to do to make this sort of thing work? Where should I look for documentation on the process? Does this approach make sense? Thanks for any help, Donald Ziff (Max) ARTFL Project, University of Chicago 1050 E. 59th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637 max@gide.UChicago.{EDU,BITNET,MAILNET,CSNET} ...!uunet!mimsy!oddjob!gargoyle!tank!maxz Donald Ziff ARTFL Project, University of Chicago 1050 E. 59th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637 max@gide.UChicago.{EDU,BITNET,MAILNET,CSNET} ...!uunet!mimsy!oddjob!gargoyle!tank!maxz