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From: jollyc@HPWARF.HP.COM (Jolly Chen)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: optimization / speedups
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Date: 16 Aug 90 15:28:30 GMT
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>   This is actually a more general Intrinsics question, but I might
>   as well start here.  Is there any way to create a wildcard
>   resource from within my application (e.g. at application startup
>   add "*foreground: polkadot")?  Secondly, is there anyway for
>   my application to check and see if a particular resource has
>   been defined, so that it can set the resource only if the user
>   has not?

Check out the Xrm calls in Xlib.    For example, XrmPutStringResource()
allows you to add a resource spec.  Either instance name or class may be
used, and they may be bound with loose (*) or tight (.) bindings.  There
are also more general routines like XrmGetResource() and XrmPutResource()
as well as quark versions, i.e.  XrmQGetResource(), XrmQPutResource(),
etc.  You can even do stuff like get a search list from the resource
database and search only that list; see XrmQGetSearchResource() and
XrmQSetSearchList().  (Gee, I didn't even know you could do that until I
flipped a few more pages in the reference manual just now.)

- Jolly


Jolly Chen
Clinical Information Systems
Hewlett-Packard
Waltham, MA

jollyc@hpwarf.hp.com