fmg@homxc.UUCP (F.GOLDSTEIN) (09/16/88)
I am having a problem with the R2 asciiStringWidget. I am trying to get the font information from the widget. I am assuming that this is possible (the documentation lists XtNfont as a resource). I have tried (in vain) to get the font. Apparently there is no such thing as a FontInfo* as the docs say, but XFontStruct does exist. All attempts have given me null pointers to the font. Does anyone an answer? Thanks. Floyd Goldstein att!homxc!fmg -- Floyd Goldstein AT&T Bell Laboratories att!homxc!fmg (or) homxc!fmg@att.com arpa!homxc!fmg (or) homxc!fmg@att.arpa
swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph R. Swick) (09/19/88)
Date: 16 Sep 88 13:38:15 GMT
From: att!whuts!homxb!homxc!fmg@bloom-beacon.mit.edu (F.GOLDSTEIN)
I am trying to
get the font information from the widget. I am assuming that this is
possible (the documentation lists XtNfont as a resource).
Well, just because something is listed as a resource doesn't mean
XtGetValues will return it to you. (C.F. asente, 17 Sep 88 00:56:48 GMT,
'Re: Clarification of "passing widget args to subwidgets"'.)
Apparently there is no such thing as
a FontInfo* as the docs say, but XFontStruct does exist.
You are correct. This is a documentation error.
All attempts have given me null pointers to the font.
This is a bug in the Ascii*Widgets. There is no reasonable workaround
at present.