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From: schoch@sheba.arc.nasa.gov (Steve Schoch)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: icon control using Xt
Keywords: icon, wm_hints, iconPixmap
Message-ID: <1991Feb21.174838.7365@news.arc.nasa.gov>
Date: 21 Feb 91 17:48:38 GMT
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Reply-To: schoch@trident.arc.nasa.gov (Steve Schoch)
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
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I'm using the X toolkit with the following sequence of calls:

	toplevel = XtAppInitialize(&my_app, ...., fallback_resources, ...);
	
	/* some other stuff */

	XtRealizeWidget(toplevel);
	
	/* more initialization */

	XtAppMainLoop(my_app);

I would like to have the window manager let me play with my own icon
which I would like to be a window (so I can flash it when input from the
user is required) but I could learn to live with just telling the window
manager to use a bitmap for the icon and mask.

One of the supplied programs (xlogo) initializes fallback_resources with
two strings:

String fallback_resources[] = {
    "*iconPixmap:    xlogo32",
    "*iconMask:      xlogo32",
    NULL,
};

The trouble with this is that filenames are expected.  I would like to
have the bitmap encoded directly in my program so it will be portable to
machines that don't have my bitmap in /usr/include/X11/bitmaps.

What I would really like is to create a window and give that to the window
manager.  There is a toolkit provision for this to be done by doing something
like:

String fallback_resources[] = {
        "*iconWindow:   mywin",
        NULL,
};

but something needs to convert the string "mywin" into a Window.  How do I
do this?

	Steve