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Re: Weird XView 3.0 XV_KEY_DATA problem

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From: Stan Friesen
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 16:33
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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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From: swf@tools3teradata.com (Stan Friesen)
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Subject: Re: Weird XView 3.0 XV_KEY_DATA problem
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Date: 28 Jan 93 16:33:40 GMT
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