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From: keith@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Keith Packard)
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Subject: Re: Does anyone have a fix for R4/PL1 XGetDefault?
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Date: 20 Feb 90 04:31:37 GMT
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>  Also, what are the fundamental objections to making XGetDefault handle
> multi-level resources.  If the X Consortium is really planning on nuking
> XGetDefault, I hope they are planning on replacing it with something
> simple to use for simple (or in awm's case, dynamic) cases.

One could always use the Xrm functions XrmGetResource or XrmQGetResource.
A nice feature of using the XrmQGetResource function would be that the
application could save a considerable number of XrmStringToQuark calls.

To initialize the database you'd need to call XGetDefault on some bogus
resource (or duplicate the code from mit/lib/X/XGetDflt.c), then use
dpy->db for the Xrm functions.

I believe the Xrm functions are documented in the Xlib manual.

Keith Packard
MIT X Consortium