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From: asente@adobe.com (Paul Asente)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X11R4: libXt GetResources(): Possible bug.
Message-ID: <10942@adobe.UUCP>
Date: 10 Feb 91 00:57:55 GMT
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In article <1051@attc.UUCP> marbru@auto-trol.UUCP (Martin Brunecky) writes:
>In article <10931@adobe.UUCP> asente@adobe.com (Paul Asente) writes:
>>The bug here lies with applications that store the addresses of variables
>>in the resource list and pass NULL as a base.  All application resources
>>should be fetched into a structure; the offsets in the resource list should
>>be ...
>
>    Mhmm. Everybody here talks about a STRUCTURE. But I want a VARIABLE.
>    Am I wrong using offset of ZERO and a base address equal to
>    the variable address ???

Basically, yes.  XtFetchApplicationResources only supports fetching resources
into a structure.  If you have only one variable you can pass the address of
the variable as the base and put 0 as the offset in the resource list, but
otherwise you have to fetch them into a structure.  If you can't live with
this you can always fetch them into a structure and then copy the values
into the individual variables.

	-paul asente
		asente@adobe.com	...decwrl!adobe!asente