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From: jordan@tcs.COM (Jordan Hayes)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Design problem in XtVaGetApplicationResources
Message-ID: <9103202211.AA08488@dwight.tcs.com>
Date: 20 Mar 91 22:11:45 GMT
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Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
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	Who says that a database has to have something to do with a
	display?
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This is a good point.  I write applications all the time that have
several top-level "objects" that could all use access to an AppDefaults
file, but don't get one becuase the file only gets loaded when you open
the display, and you can't merge them in because it would affect
(adversly) any resource fetching done later on.  My solution so far has
been to open a new Display connection so I have a fresh database.  That
can get old really quick ...

/jordan