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From: thoth@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Gilligan)
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Subject: R5 wish
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Date: 30 Aug 90 01:01:51 GMT
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  For R5 I'd like other interfaces to many of the toolkit convenience
procedures.  XtGetSubresources is a wonderful procedure, but to use it
you have to have widgets.  I want a version that takes a name and
class string or a pair of Quark lists and extracts all the data I
need.

  I also want easier interfaces for the resource converters.  I'd like
to be able to convert a string to an int or a bitmap without using the
toolkit.  I realize that there are some problems with the mechanisms
for extracting stuff like the Screen*, but I'd really like to use
XrmParseCommand in some of my simpler utilities and programs.

  Can anyone point the way toward easy resource extraction in non-Xt
programs?  Should I construct a fake widget to enable these things?
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