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Article #37493Re: R4 Athena Widget question.
From: Chris D. Peterson
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1990 19:54
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1990 19:54
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> > me > Frank me > > Since both the operating system and the X server are clever enough to free > > up all resources associated with the client, it should be enough to just call > > exit(). You can certainly be more clever, but it didn't seem worth putting a > > bunch of code that doesn't accomplish anything into all the example programs. > I think the important issue here is that application programmers don't know the > contents or mechanisms of a widget. A widget writer is supossed to destroy > everything that needs to be destroyed in the destroy callback. After thinking about this some more I agree something else should be happening here. We will look into solving the problem. Chris D. Peterson MIT X Consortium Net: kit@expo.lcs.mit.edu Phone: (617) 253 - 9608 Address: MIT - Room NE43-213
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!mit-eddie!bloom-beacon!EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU!kit From: kit@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Chris D. Peterson) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: R4 Athena Widget question. Message-ID: <9002281954.AA05118@expo.lcs.mit.edu> Date: 28 Feb 90 19:54:21 GMT References: <1990Feb26.192750.15430@agate.berkeley.edu> Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background) Organization: The Internet Lines: 23