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From: gstiehl@convex.com (Greg Stiehl)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: User settable resources in UIL
Message-ID: <106968@convex.convex.com>
Date: 8 Oct 90 23:01:10 GMT
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Reply-To: gstiehl@convex.com (Greg Stiehl)
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To: mattf@milton.u.washington.edu (Matthew Freedman)

> Upon further research, I discovered that the man page for MrmRegisterNames
> says that the names registered can not only refer to callback functions,
> but to "pointers to user-defined data, or any other values". That sounds
> like the perfect solution -- create new font and color resources normally,
> through Xt, then register them with UIL via MrmRegisterNames, right?
> Well I tried this in several variations, but I can not get UIL to find the
> value. The 'exported' declaration-modifier apparently causes UIL to look
> in the other UID files, but nowhere else.  How do you get UIL to accept
> values other than callback names via MrmRegisterNames???

identifier is what you need to use in the uil code.  Here's an example:

In your C program:

    static int              width = 50;
    static MrmRegisterArg   regvec[] = {
                                {"width", (caddr_t)&width},
                            };
    static MrmCount         regnum = XtNumber(regvec);

    MrmRegisterNames (regvec, regnum);

And in your UIL file:

    identifier width;

Then you should be able to use width anywhere in the UIL file.

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Greg Stiehl
Convex Computer Corporation
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