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From: mouse@lightning.mcrcim.mcgill.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: OpenWindows: olwm icons
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Date: 10 Jan 91 08:41:03 GMT
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> Generally, is there any other way of solving these questions than
> "ask the net"?

UTSL, perhaps.

Of course, you *should* be able to just look in the documentation
provided by your X supplier.  Unfortunately the MIT doc set tends to be
reference rather than tutorial, so many people stay away from it.  And
most vendors provide nothing better - often worse.  (As one would
expect, alas.)

> After getting the "iconPixmap" answer I grepped thru man3 from X11R4
> and didn't find any references other than something in XAWMHints that
> looked like it could be used in coding an X application but wasn't
> clear about how to set the pixmap from a resource file.  How did you
> folks know that Xt clients responded to "iconPixmap"?

I don't know; I'm not one of them :-)  But I would guess that a couple
know it because they wrote the code; a bunch more know it because they
read the code for it, or code that uses it; a bunch more know it
because they've seen a posting on the net that talks about it.

(To think that there are still people who don't see the value of the
net.  Sigh.)

					der Mouse

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