Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU!kit
From: kit@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Chris D. Peterson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: XtAppCreateShell. What am I doing wrong?
Message-ID: <8905261610.AA17950@expo.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: 26 May 89 16:10:16 GMT
References: <6979@bunny.GTE.COM>
Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU
Organization: The Internet
Lines: 19


Donna's reply covered the problem I think, but there is another thing
or two in here just waiting to bite you...

XtOpenDisplay() can return NULL if it is not able to open the display, if you
try to pass NULL to XtAppCreateShell() it will probabally seg. fault.  You
need to check this value to make sure that a non-NULL display is returned.

Also, it is usually best to pass NULL as the name of the application, this
will cause the toolkit to look for resources using the last component of 
argv[0] as the application name.  This is generally the desired behavior.


                                                Chris D. Peterson
                                                MIT X Consortium

Net:     kit@expo.lcs.mit.edu
Phone:   (617) 253 - 9608
Address: MIT - Room NE43-213