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From: newsuser@oliver.SUBLINK.ORG (Ugo Cei)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
Subject: Problems with OLIT and the Resource Manager
Keywords: OLIT resources
Message-ID: <906@oliver.SUBLINK.ORG>
Date: 14 Mar 91 22:01:26 GMT
Reply-To: cei@ipvvis.unipv.it (Ugo Cei)
Organization: Oliver, Pavia, Italy
Lines: 33

I have some problems regarding the specificaton of resources for
applications written using the OLIT widget set under OW 2.0 (SunOS 4.1.1).
Specifically, if I initialize my application calling OlInitialize like
this:

	toplevel = OlInitialize("appl", "Appl", ...

where "appl" and "Appl" are meant to be the application's name and
class respectively, I can never get my app to understand resources
like:

	Appl*OblongButton.widht: 100

as I did with Athena widgets and XtInitialize, but only:

	appl*OblongButton.width: 100

I have also tried to use XtInitialize and XtAppInitialize, but I only
get core dumps when I try to create a widget. I could let this pass,
but I have also problems in specifying resources for some kinds of
widgets. For instance, the reference manual says that the OblongButton
widget class has three color resources: "background" for the button's
background, "fontColor" for the label and "foreground" for the border.
However, I can only change the label's color through the "foreground"
resource and the background color through the "background" one, while
"fontColor" has no visible effect. Moreover, my buttons are contained
in a ControlArea widget, for which I cannot set neither the foreground
nor the background, and I am thus forced to have it white.

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