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From: mattf@milton.u.washington.edu (Matthew Freedman)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: User settable resources in UIL
Message-ID: <8609@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 4 Oct 90 21:34:07 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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Does anybody know how to create new, user-settable resources which can be
referenced from a UIL module? In particular, I have several distinct fonts
and colors which I use in different widgets in my application. Right now they
are defined in UIL, i.e. 
  text_font : font('Adobe-New Century Schoolbook-Medium-R-Normal--12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*');

and in various arguments sections of objects I will say
  XmNfontList = text_font;

The problem is that I need to make the fonts (and colors)
usable-settable at run-time. The obvious choice is to do so in a
resource file, but the only way I can see to do this is to individually
specify the fontList resource for each and every widget or widget-class
which used a certain font.  I would much rather create a new resource
called textFont, and allow the user to specify a value for that, and
have my uil-defined widgets use it as needed.

If I was building the interface directly in C without UIL, I know I could
use an XtResource array and XtGetApplicationResources to define new
resource names, but how can I export those to uil-defined widgets? 

This is very important, because the application needs to run well on a
variety of different displays, and some of them seem to have radically
different font sizes and names available. I also need to do the same
with colors so that the application will look decent in monochrome as 
well as color.

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