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From: ISSLCK@NUSVM.BITNET (Law Chee Keong)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Dynamic resource sharing by widgets
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Date: 4 May 88 13:08:26 GMT
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I have a question regarding the X Toolkit.

Let's say I want to make a group of widgets share some common
resources, like Fonts and Colors and so forth. The Toolkit's
Resource Manager takes care of that with the XtC resource classes.

Now, suppose I do not know which resources a group of widgets will
share until run-time, how can I dynamically specify widget resource
sharing through the Toolkit, or is such a facility supplied?

This problem crops up when I allow users to interactively group
widgets together, and then allow the user to key in the resources
the widgets are to share. Right now, it seems the X Toolkit does not
cater for this. Anyone has suggestions??

-C.K. Law
 ISS-NUS
 Singapore