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From: mikey@eukanuba.wpd.sgi.com (Mike Yang)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,ingr.x
Subject: Re: Retrieving Application Class and Name
Keywords: Application Class and Name
Message-ID: <1990Nov9.203047.26788@relay.wpd.sgi.com>
Date: 9 Nov 90 20:30:47 GMT
References: <9352@b11.ingr.com>
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In article <9352@b11.ingr.com>, gja@b11.ingr.com (Gerry Attilio) writes:
|>   Is there any way to retrieve the application class and name that was
|> specified to XtDisplayInitialize.  Our investigation led us to believe that
|> these values are managed internally within the Xt toolkit and access to the 
|> pertinent data is restricted to Xt.

These "hints" are stored as properties on the top-level window, so they
are accessible via standard Xlib calls.  Look at XGetClassHint.

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                 Mike Yang        Silicon Graphics, Inc.
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