resources not working: classname being clobbered?

Bauke Jan Douma bjdouma at xs4all.nl
Mon Nov 6 13:26:24 PST 2006


Peter J. Bismuti wrote on 06-11-06 20:49:
> We have an old X application that apparently never was able to load resources 
> properly.  In order for the resources in a file to have any effect, the 
> classname has to be removed:
> 
> *.PlanWindow.x: 100
> *.PlanWindow.y: 200
> 
> Instead of:
> 
> AppName*PlanWindow.x: 100
> AppName*PlanWindow.y: 200
> 
> The Xt call clearly is attempting to set the classname correctly but we're 
> speculating that somewhere else this classname is being clobbered:
> 
> top_level = XtVaAppInitialize(&AppContext,
>         "AppName", ...);
> 
> Can anyone offer a guess as to what is happening?

Is AppName maybe being invoked with the `-name ' toolkit option?

bj




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