[comp.windows.x] Problems with text widget

mlp@ardent.UUCP (Mark Patrick) (06/06/88)

I am trying to use XtGetValues to get the current length of a string in a 
text widget.  I am using the following code fragment:

        n=0;
   XtSetArg(args[n], XtNlength, &length); n++;
   XtGetValues(w, args, n);
   printf("length is %d\n", length);

If I set the variable `length' to -1 before this fragment the printf statement
allways prints -1.  What am I doing wrong?

Mark Patrick
Ardent Computer
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