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From: veerabad@buster.cps.msu.edu (Vibhu Veerabadrappa)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: a question on XAPPLRESDIR and xset +fp path.
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Date: 15 Dec 90 19:49:35 GMT
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Hi, 
    I am a beginning programmer suing X windows, and so this may be stupid...

    I tried to set the shell variable XAPPLRESDIR to the pwd, and in my
working directory, I have a file XHello which contains some resources for 
the application xhello.c (the example given in o'Reilly's book, p31). When 
I run the program, expecting it to take the resources from the said file, it
simply refuses to do so. It still displays the default message "HELLO" ... 
again, I am assuming that you all know what program I am talking about ... it
is the elementary program in p31 in O'Reilly and Nye's book. The exact commands
I used are:

<52 sapphire:~/project_X >set XAPPLRESDIR = `pwd`/
                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
<53 sapphire:~/project_X >echo $XAPPLRESDIR
                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
/usr/ua/ua/veerabad/project_X/
<54 sapphire:~/project_X >xhello
                          ^^^^^^

and xhello did not read the XHello file.

Another question is, I tried to change the font path fp using xset +fp as below
and I got the error messagees shown:

<57 sapphire:~/project_X >xset +fp /usr/ua/ua/veerabad/project_X/
                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
X Error of failed request:  BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operati
on)
  Major opcode of failed request:  51 (X_SetFontPath)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  0
  Resource id in failed request:  0x0
  Serial number of failed request:  4
  Current serial number in output stream:  6
<58 sapphire:~/project_X >

Could someone tell me what it is, that I am doing wrong? e-mail would
be better, as I may not catch the response on the news net. 

Thanks a lot, in advance.

---Vibhu.

e-mail address: veerabad@buster.cps.msu.edu