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From: lanzo@wgate.wgate.com (Mark Lanzo)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Question about Motif resource converters
Message-ID: <188@atesysv.UUCP>
Date: 31 May 91 16:37:14 GMT
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Organization: Wandel & Goltermann Technologies, RTP, NC
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First, background info before I pose my question:

	Hardware:	HP9000/370
	OS:		HP-UX 7.0B
	S/W:		X11R3, Motif 1.0

The question:

    What is the correct way to get all of the Motif resource type
    converters registered when my application starts up?

I want to use XtGetApplicationResources() to fetch a bunch of
parameters.  It turns out that none of the Motif type converters
are available (such as String to FontList).

Now, I found that there was an undocumented function 
XmRegisterConverters() which does the trick, so I have code which
looks like:

	RootWidget = XtInitialize(...);
	XmRegisterConverters();
	XtGetApplicationResources(...);

This works fine; however, I am uncomfortable using a function which
I would never know existed had I not looked for it in the source code
for the Motif toolkit.

So:  is there a more "proper" way to do this?

			Thanks,
			   Mark