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From: hajadi@goofy.csd.sgi.com (Ivan Hajadi)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: option description list
Message-ID: <1991Apr16.173222.451@odin.corp.sgi.com>
Date: 16 Apr 91 17:32:22 GMT
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Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA
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Can someone tell me what I did wrong ?
I want to be able to call the program like this

	foo -label SOMETHING

and have a label widget with string SOMETHING.

Thanks.

-- ivan




#ifdef ATHENA
#include <X11/Intrinsic.h>
#include <X11/StringDefs.h>
#include <Xaw/Label.h>
#else
#include <Xm/Xm.h>
#include <Xm/Label.h>
#endif

/* resources to use when there is no app-defaults file */

static char *fallback_resources[] = {
#ifdef ATHENA
  "Foo*font: -adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--*-80-*-*-*-*-iso*-*",
  "Foo*Label.label: This is Athena label widget (no app-defaults)",
#else
  "Foo*fontList: -adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--*-80-*-*-*-*-iso*-*",
  "Foo*XmLabel.labelString: This is Motif label widget (no app-defaults)",
#endif
  NULL
};

/* define command line option and resource file option */

static XrmOptionDescRec options[] =
{
#ifdef ATHENA
  {"-label", "*label.label", XrmoptionSepArg, NULL}
#else
  {"-labelString", "*label.labelString", XrmoptionSepArg, NULL}
#endif
};

/* Application context takes care of the book-keeping necessary to */
/* maintain one or more connections to X servers.  Every application */
/* must have at least one (default) application context.  Application */
/* context is an opaque type, that is passed to other Xt functions. */

XtAppContext app_context;

main(unsigned int argc, char **argv)
{
  Widget toplevel, w;

  /* Convenient routine is XtInitialize */
  toplevel = XtAppInitialize(
		&app_context		/* returns application context */,
	        "Foo"			/* application class */, 
		options			/* command line option table */,
		XtNumber(options)	/* number of options */,
		&argc,
		argv,
		fallback_resources	/* resources to use when there is
					   no app-defaults file */,
		NULL			/* argument list used to override
					   default values */,
		0);

#ifdef ATHENA
  w = XtCreateManagedWidget("label", labelWidgetClass, toplevel, NULL, 0);
#else
  w = XtCreateManagedWidget("label", xmLabelWidgetClass, toplevel, NULL, 0);
#endif

  XtRealizeWidget(toplevel);

  /* Convenient function is XtMainLoop */
  XtAppMainLoop(app_context);
}
--

    Ivan M. Hajadi,                      Widget - any small, unspecified
    hajadi@csd.sgi.com                            gadget or device (Webster)