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From: josh@viewlog.UUCP (Josh Marantz)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Resource editing
Message-ID: <1522@viewlog.UUCP>
Date: 3 May 90 22:42:20 GMT
Organization: Viewlogic Systems Inc., Marlboro, MA
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Mre is the Motif Resource Editor.  I'm intrigued by the concept, but
I haven't succeeded in making it run.  What experience have people had
with resource editors in general?  How do they relate to Macinstosh
properties or Open Look preference sheets?  Is MRE just sort of a restricted
text editor, or does it know more about the types of the resource values?

Clearly, resource editors embedded in applications, such as Open Look
preference sheets, can take advantage of type information and provide
better editors.  Right?

What about when the user wants to save the changed resources?  The toolkit
looks for resource values is one of about 5 sources (.Xdefaults, system
.Xdefaults, server resource properties, applications defaults, command line,
etc.)  If a user changes a resource interactively, which file gets written?
What if he changes one resource from one file and one from another?  Do
they get saved to their respective origins?  All to the highest precedence
file?  All to .Xdefaults?

This seems like a complex issue, and I'm curious how other people address
it?  I don't totally understand the Motif or Open Look solutions, so
please feel free to enlighten me!
-- 
Joshua Marantz
Viewlogic Systems, Inc.
viewlog!josh@cg-atla.agfa.com
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