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335) How do I get the events for gadgets? Or the name of the gadget?

[Last modified: July 96]

Answer:  Get events from the gadget's parent.  Ken Lee,
http://www.rahul.net/kenton/

A related question is "How the name of a gadget an event is directed to?"
Daniel Dardailler (daniel@x.org) writes:

Motif 2.0 provides a XmObjectAtPoint public function that support this
functionality.  For earlier version, something like the undocumented
_XmInputInGadget( wid, x, y ) should do it.

    _XmInputInGadget
        Given a composite widget and an (x, y) coordinate, see if the
        (x, y) lies within one of the gadgets contained within the
        composite.  Return the gadget if found, otherwise return NULL.