AJR,

Don't take offense, but this is one of those questions that causes me to ask why you would want to perform this task. It is a simple nough proposition to assign the test whenever you invoke a FRAME, but I'm sure you have sound reasons.

One option you have is to build subclasses for each of the widgets whose text value (or any property) that you want to establish a default value for. Within the saub-class, you would then appropriate initialization values. This is a fairly advanced FRAME technique that is well-documented in the FRAME Application Development Concepts manual (A MUST!!!!! HAVE). By creating custom classes that you or other developers can access, you can tailor the defaults of all frame widgets. You options, in this area, are virtually unlimited.

I know this is not a hard answer to your question, but you will see that it is fairly involvded process that will require some quality programming time to understand. Tech Support is your best avenue for getting started, but I wil be happy to assist in anyway I can. Just direct mail me.

greg

ajr@galileo.micro.lucent.com wrote:

> My problem is to change the default text of a widget by program. > By "change the default text" I mean that the new text has to be > stored in the right place (wherever SAS/AF stores widget default > values), replacing the default value; so, next time you open the > frame, the widget shows its new text. > > I thought the _bupdate_ method invoked after _set_text_ should > do this, but it seems _bupdate_ just updates defaults when > invoked in build time by clicking OK in the Object Attributes window. > > Regarding the kind of widget, there can be a number of them: > - label > - push button > - command push button > - image icon > - ... > > -------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- > http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet