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From: asente@adobe.com (Paul Asente)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Design problem in XtVaGetApplicationResources
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Date: 18 Mar 91 23:23:30 GMT
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In article <3108@laura.UUCP> klute@tommy.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Rainer Klute) writes:
>However, this stuff will only work if you already have a connection to an X
>server, because you have to pass a widget (hence a display connection) as
>parameter to XtVaGetApplicationResources. Now, what can I do if I don't have
>one? Before opening any display connection and creating any widgets my
>application *first* wants to read its resources - using
>XtVaGetApplicationResources - and only then open a display connection *upon the
>values of the retrieved resources*.

In Xt, you can't fetch database resources before opening a display because
there is no database to fetch the resources from until after you open a
display.  You could add a new routine that fetched resources from
the display's database before creating any widgets on the display, but it
wouldn't solve your problem.

What database would you expect the resources to be fetched from without the
context of the display?  You're probably thinking the .Xdefaults file, but Xt
normally gets the contents of the .Xdefaults file from the display, not from
the file itself.

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

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