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From: don@zardoz.coral.COM (Don Dewar)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: MrmFetchLiteral and String tables? Help!?!?
Message-ID: <9006061717.AA06178@zardoz.coral.com>
Date: 6 Jun 90 17:17:19 GMT
Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
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I want to store some string array data in a uil file that I use to
build a screen, but it is not directly related to uil.  So I stored it
as an asciz_table.  When I fetch the data, however, there is some
unknown (to me) data at the beginning of the structure followed by the
list of strings I am interested in.   Here is an excerpt from the uil
file, followed by an excerpt from the c-code, followed by what gdb
tells me is there.  Then, I ask some questions.

The UIL file

ColumnList              : exported asciz_string_table ('objectid', 
                                                       'model',
                                                       'contact');

The C-code

   char *pcollist;
   if (!(MrmFetchLiteral(mrmid, "ColumnList", UNULL, &pcollist, type)))
   {
      return;
   }

GDB

(gdb) print (char [39])*pcollist
$5 ={"\000$\006P\000$\006Y\000$\006_\000\000\000\000objectid\000model\000contact\000"}

I have guessed that the \006 is the data type (RGMrTypeCStringVector of
each element in the table.  I can't figure out what the P, Y, and _
are except that they are the same number apart in the ascii table
as each value in the string table is apart (ie. Y is 9 from P and
contact starts 9 from the start of model).  And I assumed the $ is
just some separator character.


Questions:

   Is this the output I should get?

   Where is the structure for this table defined?

   Are there convenience functions for gettting the nth element out of
   the table?

   Is what I am doing ok or is it frowned upon?

   Is there a better way to do this in uil?


Miscellaneous Information

   I am running motif (of course) with X11 rev 4 on a sparcstation
(sun4) under SunOs 4.03.


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