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From: ben@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com (Benjamin Ellsworth)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Default init values of widgets
Message-ID: <100920161@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com>
Date: 2 Feb 90 01:30:50 GMT
References: <9002010315.AA27013@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
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> Is there a way  to setup the default font, cursor, foreground
> background,... that widgets will look for when they get created?
> 
> ...
> NOTE that I want to do this with a 'C' call or assignment
> within application and  not by specifying it at prompt level
> or by using the ressource manager.

Well you can do it with C calls but probably not without using the 
resource manager.  You need to put the resources into the resource 
database that the widget initialization code looks at.  I don't have 
all of the particulars in front of me (and they just changed with R4), 
but if you'll dig around in the Xt sources it should be fairly easy (I 
did it in the R2 days).

If R4 Xt has squirreled that database away to the point that it is
inaccessible without changing the R4 Xt source, then I think that we
have a bug in the R4 Xt Intrinsics.  I think that the application ought
to be able to attach information directly to the resource database as
it sees fit.

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