--- On Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:23:51 -0700 (PDT) Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>The APIs for *updating* the resources database look a tad primitive;
>about all I can see for *persistently* updating the database is
>"XrmPutFileDatabase()" (and the Qt-interest thread I mention below
>discusses some problems with that).
>
Maybe I use things differently than other folks. I set my resource file to
whatever values I want. I let this override the system values. Sometimes I
even put them on the command line (if I am putting a command in a menu, say).
Sometimes I use the system defaults or when a sysadmin I configure the system
defaults to something I think the user community might like.
My only use for XrmPutFileDatabase() is if we create a dialog box for the user
to change colors or whatever in the program and then the user wants to save
that persistently. We could use XrmPutFileDatabase to write to the
~/.etherealrc or whatever. I'd probably put my defaults in my .Xdefaults,
though.
Anyway, I just suggested the resources because it was pretty ubiquitous, I
like it and it means that all the parsing and searching is already written.
Is there some other library with that already done (I don't like to re-invent
wheels if they work well)?
--john
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