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From: staatsvr@asd.wpafb.af.mil ( Vern Staats)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Querying the window mgr for transientShell resources
Keywords: transientShell vendorShell dxwm
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Date: 28 Nov 89 22:30:01 GMT
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Reply-To: staatsvr@asd.wpafb.af.mil ( Vern Staats)
Organization: US. Air Force, ASD, Wright-Patterson AFB
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  Hi-Ho.  Once again I've found an opportunity to publicly display
my ignorance (i.e. I could use some help).

  I am using a transientShell for a legend which the user can drag
around on an x-y plot.  The problem is in determining a minimum width
to ask for, such that the window mgr (dxwm) has room to display the
window title "Legend" in addition to the iconify, lower, and resize
widgets.  It would help if I could at least get the font of the title.

  The DEC Toolkit Intrinsics manual claims that I can get the info I
need from the non_title_width and title_font resources of vendorShell.
These fields appear not to be available, no doubt because I replaced
the DECified libraries with the Athena versions.

  Is there a general way to get information about resources controlled
by the window manager that doesn't tie the application to a specific vendor?
Or, failing that, is there a common subset of resources of vendorShell
supported by most vendors?

Thanks in Advance

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