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- From: ware@oboe.cis.ohio-state.edu (Peter Ware)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
- Subject: Re: Defeating the resource file search path.
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 08:51:52 -0500
- Organization: Ohio State Computer Science
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- In-reply-to: avinash@felix.contex.com's message of 21 Jan 93 16:16:40 GMT
-
- You could, conceivably, use some idiosyncratic method for loading
- the resources and just replace the resource database. Look at the
- Xrm*() functions in Xlib. But don't do it.
-
- I'll concede that where an Xt program finds resource files does seem
- to come from an incredible variety of places. They are (from highest
- priority to lowest priority):
-
- 1. Args passed at creation time.
- 2. Command line arguments.
- 3. User's per host defaults file
- 4. User's defaults file.
- 5. User's per application default file.
- 6. System wide per application default file.
-
- Of course, it is complicated by the fact that several of these can be
- loaded from different places. Look at the Xt FAQ, Question 20, for
- full details about where resources are found.
-
- --pete
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