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From: klee@wsl.dec.com (Ken Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: Setting iconPixmap from a resource file
Message-ID: <1991Jun12.153758@wsl.dec.com>
Date: 12 Jun 91 22:37:58 GMT
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In article <1991Jun12.205222.5881@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov>, mek@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov (Mike Ketchmere) writes:
|> I am trying to set the values of the resources of the icon
|> associated with my application from a resource file.  I can set the
|> iconName resource with no problem, but setting the iconPixmap resource
|> yields no results.  Looking at the resource file for the X application 'xcalc',
|> I see that the value of the iconPixmap gets set as follows:
|> 
|> 	XCalc*iconPixmap:		calculator
|> 
|> However, the same trick will not for my application. 

This is because the Athena vendor shell widget installs a
string-to-bitmap resource converter, while yours does not.  You may
want to add such a converter to your vendor shell.  Many vendors do
this.

-- 
Ken Lee
DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif.
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