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From: chuck@Morgan.COM (Chuck Ocheret)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Design problem in XtVaGetApplicationResources
Keywords: 'Sup Dudells
Message-ID: <2950@s5.Morgan.COM>
Date: 1 Apr 91 16:40:40 GMT
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Organization: Morgan Stanley, & Co., Inc. / New York City, NY
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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 ...

And if you're using Motif, you can't open a new connection once you've closed
one because their gc caching code is screwed up.

~chuck
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