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98) When I add text to a scrolling text widget, how can I get the

new text to show?

[Last modified: Sept 94]

Answer:  Use the (fully supported) function XmTextShowPosition:

        void XmTextShowPosition(w, position)
        Widget w;
        XmTextPosition position;

where the position is the number of characters from the beginning of the
buffer of the text to be displayed. If you don't know how many characters are
in the buffer, use XmTextGetLastPosition.

        position = XmTextGetLastPosition(w)