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From: rlh2@eagle.ukc.ac.uk (R.L.Hesketh)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: resources in toolkit
Keywords: -xrm
Message-ID: <4970@eagle.ukc.ac.uk>
Date: 14 May 88 10:10:31 GMT
References: <8805122159.AA07168@BigMoma.ardent.com>
Reply-To: rlh2@ukc.ac.uk (Richard Hesketh)
Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.
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In article <8805122159.AA07168@BigMoma.ardent.com> jkh@ardent.UUCP (Jordan Hubbard) writes:
>And while we're on this subject, I guess I'll ask how exactly does
>the toolkit handle command line options?...
> ....
>.... I notice
>quite a few things that are searched for in the resource database, but
>there doesn't see to be any way of specifying them on the command line.
>Que Pasa?
>

The way I read it, (X Toolkit Intrinsics manual page 22) any resource in any
widget can be set from the command line using the `-xrm' argument.

For example to set the background colour you can either use:

	myapp -bg slateblue
or
	myapp -xrm '*background: slateblue'

please note 'background: slateblue' does not work.

or even 
	myapp -xrm '*borderColor: red' -xrm '*logo*background: slateblue'

In this case all the borders of all of the widgets are red and the background
colour of any logo widget is slateblue (nice colour that one!).

To bring a toolkit based application up iconified you can directly specify the
Shell widget's resource:

	myapp -xrm '*iconic: true'

This works for me everytime.

	Richard
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