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- From: swf@tools3teradata.com (Stan Friesen)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
- Subject: Re: Weird XView 3.0 XV_KEY_DATA problem
- Message-ID: <1798@tdat.teradata.COM>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 16:33:40 GMT
- References: <1993Jan22.132748.50171@ccvax.ucd.ie> <RICKG.93Jan25125945@irondude.eng.sun.com>
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- In article <RICKG.93Jan25125945@irondude.eng.sun.com>, rickg@eng.sun.com (The Tankster) writes:
- |>
- |> anyway, the deal is that the XView library itself uses
- |> XV_KEY_DATA extensively, so you must be certain that the
- |> key you use is unique. the methodology for doing this is
- |> to obtain the key from the function xv_unique_key(void).
- |>
- Another approach, one that I often use, is to use a pointer to some application
- datum. This is extremely unlikely to match any key used internally by the library.
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