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From: kit@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Chris D. Peterson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Setting resources for appl_shell_widget via .Xdefaults
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Date: 24 Apr 89 18:43:53 GMT
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[ macbeth!aw@cs.duke.edu (Angus Wang) writes: ]

>     toplevel = XtInitialize("main", "vaedit", NULL, 0, &argc, argv);
>    display_id = XOpenDisplay(NULL);

This won't work correctly. Do this:

    toplevel = XtInitialize("main", "vaedit", NULL, 0, &argc, argv);
    display_id = XtDisplay(toplevel);

> I have tried several differnt things but the dialog box(topLevelShell)
> always comes up as big as the text editor window. I want to make it
> pop up smaller.  I'v tried (in .Xdefaults) :

If you specify an arguement list to a widget or use XtSetValues() these
values always override the resource values.  Thus you cannot set anything
from a resource file.  If you remove the arg list and give your default 
sizes from a app-defaults file you should be able to override them from
a personal resource file.  

This is why you should use an app-defaults file instead of hard coding
in values with arg lists.

                                                Chris D. Peterson
                                                MIT X Consortium