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From: casey@gauss.llnl.gov (Casey Leedom)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Does anyone have a fix for R4/PL1 XGetDefault?
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Date: 20 Feb 90 19:16:42 GMT
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| From: keith@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Keith Packard)
| 
| >   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.

  They are.  It will probably take me about a day to rewrite XGetDefault
in terms of these routines since I don't have enough background in X
programming to get myself out of a wet paper sack.  And in the end I will
have done exactly that: simply rewritten XGetDefault using a different
set of routines.

  Again, I don't understand the reluctance to keep something usefully
simple like XGetDefault around.  I could well understand a desire to put
it in Xt as XtGetDefault along with the other resource helper routines.
Even the MIT software uses XGetDefault extensively.  In mit/clients I
count 23 calls to XGetDefault in 4 clients (there are two more references
to it in xrdb's manual page.)  In all there are 90 references to
XGetDefault throughout the mit subdirectory as program calls and
tutorial/documentation references.

  Please forgive my earlier flame and don't let its tone back you into a
corner on this.  I truly think that there's a place for an extremely
simple interface to the resource database.

Casey