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From: erik@sravd.sra.JUNET (Erik M. van der Poel)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Programs relying on app-defaults files (was: Re: xclipboard bug?)
Summary: put app-defaults in program
Keywords: app-defaults
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Date: 19 May 89 03:04:45 GMT
References: <8905151402.AA06843@THANATOS.MIT.EDU> <773@acorn.co.uk>
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In article <773@acorn.co.uk> steve@acorn.UUCP (Steve "Daffy" Hunt) writes:
>In article <8905151402.AA06843@THANATOS.MIT.EDU> swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph R. Swick) writes:
>>... But it _does_ rely on it's app-defaults
>>(XClipboard.ad) file being correctly installed in the
>>appropriate place(s).
>...
>I have to question the wisdom of *relying* on a resource file which can
>so easily become separated from the program proper.

I agree. I propose adding a function to Xt that would allow specifying the
app-defaults in a string in the program instead of in a separate file. This
would have to be called before calling XtInitialize().

    void XtAppDefaults(defaults)
        String defaults;

If this function is called, Xt ignores the app-defaults file.

Now I'll sit back and wait for one of the Xt people to say

    "Yes, we've already done this. It'll be in R4." :-)