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From: kit@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Chris D. Peterson)
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Date: 24 Aug 89 19:06:51 GMT
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> I am interested in developing some applications to make application 
> development easier in X, and was wondering if you had any ideas on a 
> problem/situation I am pondering.

> These files should also contain the default values for the attributes since the
> appl. prog.  does not have to specify all values.  

Nope, this information is usually in the *.c file.

>   Since all widgets have to follow
> the X Intrinsics, can you see any situation where these ideas will
> break down?

It seems to me that this is really more of a matter of programming style than
a specification defined in the intrinsics.  

> Basically I want to be able to determine all the application set-able fields
> and default values for them at run time rather than maintain a data base
> of widgets in a widget set, attributes per widget, range of values per
> attribute, and default values.

Perhaps the function XtGetResourceList() is more like what you are looking for.


						Chris D. Peterson     
						MIT X Consortium 

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