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<H1><A ID="SECTION006700000000000000000"><tex2html_anchor_invisible_mark></A> <A ID="ch:resource-management"><tex2html_anchor_mark></A><BR>
Resource Management
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Users need a way to specify preferences for various values of the user interface
(e.g. colors, fonts, title strings, etc.). Applications, too, need a
consistent method
for determining the default interface values that are specific to them. It also
is useful if application interface values can be modified by a user
``externally,'' without change to the application program. For example, this
capability can make it easy to change the color scheme of a user
interface.
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In CLX, such interface values
are referred to as <#3342#><B>resources</B><#3342#><A ID="3343"><tex2html_anchor_invisible_mark></A>. CLX defines functions for
storing and retrieving interface resources from a <#3344#><B>resource
database</B><#3344#><A ID="3345"><tex2html_anchor_invisible_mark></A>. CLUE automatically accesses contact
resources during contact initialization; the resource database used is given by
the value of the special variable <#3346#><TT>*database*</TT><#3346#>.<A ID="3347"><tex2html_anchor_invisible_mark></A><A ID="3348"><tex2html_anchor_invisible_mark></A>
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