net@TUB.BITNET (Oliver Laumann) (12/07/88)
All Athena widgets add their resource converters by a call to XtAddConverter() from within their class_initialize functions. This doesn't seem to be right, since XtAddConverter() adds the converter to a `default application context', *not* to the application context to which widgets of the class actually belong. As a result, the widgets cannot be used together with explicitly created application contexts, since the converters are added to the wrong application context. It is totally unclear to me how this can ever be fixed, since the `right' application context is not available within the class_initialize function, so that XtAppAddConverter() cannot be used here. The problem seems to be that converters are attached to application contexts; shouldn't they be a global resource instead? Regards, -- Oliver Laumann net@TUB.BITNET net@tub.UUCP
rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler) (12/07/88)
The problem seems to be that converters are attached to
application contexts; shouldn't they be a global resource instead?
Good question. This is a known problem, and your suggestion is
perhaps the most likely solution. I expect we'll see this issue
arise formally in the X Consortium in the near future.