montnaro@spyder.crd.ge.com (Skip Montanaro) (05/28/91)
In the Motif widgets there are two methods for accessing the children of composite widgets, 1) by getting the value of a resource, and 2) by making a call to a special function. An example of the first is getting the horizontal scroll bar of an XmScrolledWindow widget by accessing the horizontalScrollBar resource. An example of the second is getting the file list widget of an XmFileSelectionBox widget by calling XmFileSelectionBoxGetChild(). Is there a rational reason for having two entirely different methods to get child widget ids? Are there plans to rectify this anomaly in future versions of the widget set, either by discarding one method (preferably the special function) or embellishing all widgets to allow either method of access? -- Skip (montanaro@crdgw1.ge.com)