I suspect that the converter is not being registered early enough.
> The reported
> Warning: No type converter registered for 'String' to 'Bitmap'
> conversion.
> within Ishmail seems to be triggered by a XmCreateDragIcon().
>
> Citing a Motif (1.2) man page:
>
> An application initializes a DragIcon with the function XmCreateDragIcon
> or through entries in the resource database. If a pixmap and its mask
> (optional) are specified in the resource database, the toolkit converts
> the values in the X11 Bitmap file format and assigns values to the
> correspond- ing resources.
>
> Sounds like a _XmNSECvtStringToBitmap() is missing, but OTOH since this
> is written in an offical manpage it can't be an extension only.
> Do we miss a suitable converter or do we just miss to set up
> things properly?
>
> Adding to LTCvt.c a
> XtSetTypeConverter(XmRString,
> XmRBitmap,
> _XmNSECvtStringToBitmap,
> ...)
> line indeed makes the new (for now just a dummy) function called.
>
>
> Any help is appreciated (as usual :-)
>
> --
> Alexander Mai
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>