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From: klute@tommy.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Rainer Klute)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Design problem in XtVaGetApplicationResources
Message-ID: <3114@laura.UUCP>
Date: 19 Mar 91 17:39:03 GMT
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In article <12721@adobe.UUCP>, asente@adobe.com (Paul Asente) writes:
|> 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.

Who says that a database has to have something to do with a display? Sure,
the server's database is the one which is most frequently referenced. But
first of all a database is a data structure on the client side. Entries can
be made from various sources: from the command line, from files, from
strings - where an example of such a string might be the server's
RESOURCE_MANAGER property.

I hope I have made clear that from a database's point of view there is no
inherent relation between the database and an X server. Xt should not
oblige such a relation, forcing the user to use the Xrm primitives. Ok?

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