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From: marbru@auto-trol.UUCP (Martin Brunecky)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: MrmFetchLiteral and String tables? Help!?!?
Message-ID: <1191@auto-trol.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jun 90 15:08:50 GMT
References: <9006061717.AA06178@zardoz.coral.com>
Reply-To: marbru@auto-trol.com (Martin Brunecky)
Organization: Auto-trol Technology, Denver
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In article <9006061717.AA06178@zardoz.coral.com> don@zardoz.coral.COM (Don Dewar) writes:
>
>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...

 What about saving yourself troubles with UIL and storing it in the
 app-defaults resource file ? You can retrieve your string(s) with
 XtGetApplicationResources, and you can either use some separator
 to delimit individual strings, or have a resource for each item,
 such as:
    foo.foo.str1: xxxx
    foo.foo.str2: yyyy

 Note, XtGetApplicationResources is optimized for retrieving multiple
 resources at a time (the code used at widget creation time, even if
 you use UIL ...). Also, you can "attach" your resources to any widget
 in your tree. 
 Also note, that Motif likes to twist and tweak your widget tree by
 "confusion routines" which insert hidden shells, parent widget off
 a different widget than you specified ... just beware.


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