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From: rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler)
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Subject: Re: Help w/ resources, maybe what I want in R5...
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Date: 28 Jun 90 23:05:35 GMT
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    the construction of an interface to set resources for a particular client

Chris Peterson here at MIT has a working implementation of a general, dynamic
resource editor, using an inter-client protocol.  Protocol support is currently
built into the Athena Widget Set, permitting any application using Xaw to have
their resources edited dynamically.  There is nothing widget-set specific
about the protocol, nor even necessarily Xt specific.  You get a graphical
display of the widget hierarchy, with instance/class/widget identification
available, you can obtain the set of resources supported for each widget,
there's a nice dialog box with a graphical interface to selecting widgets
and resources to update, you can log updates to a file, and probably other
things I can't remember offhand.

Yes, we would expect something like this to be in R5.  No, you can't have
it now.  (Yes, Consortium members will probably get it pretty soon. :-)