VIEWRES(1) General Commands Manual VIEWRES(1)
NAME
viewres - graphical class browser for Xt
SYNOPSIS
viewres [-option ...]
DESCRIPTION
The viewres program displays a tree showing the widget class hierarchy
of the Athena Widget Set. Each node in the tree can be expanded to show
the resources that the corresponding class adds (i.e. does not inherit
from its parent) when a widget is created. This application allows the
user to visually examine the structure and inherited resources for the
Athena Widget Set.
OPTIONS
Viewres accepts all of the standard toolkit command line options as well
as the following:
-top name
This option specifies the name of the highest widget in the hi-
erarchy to display. This is typically used to limit the display
to a subset of the tree. The default is Object.
-variable
This option indicates that the widget variable names (as de-
clared in header files) should be displayed in the nodes rather
than the widget class name. This is sometimes useful to distin-
guish widget classes that share the same name (such as Text).
-vertical
This option indicates that the tree should be displayed top to
bottom rather left to right.
VIEW MENU
The way in which the tree is displayed may be changed through the en-
tries in the View menu:
Show Variable Names
This entry causes the node labels to be set to the variable
names used to declare the corresponding widget class. This op-
eration may also be performed with the SetLabelType(variable)
translation.
Show Class Names
This entry causes the node labels to be set to the class names
used when specifying resources. This operation may also be per-
formed with the SetLabelType(class) translation.
Layout Horizontal
This entry causes the tree to be laid out from left to right.
This operation may also be performed with the SetOrienta-
tion(West) translation.
Layout Vertical
This entry causes the tree to be laid out from top to bottom.
This operation may also be performed with the SetOrienta-
tion(North) translation.
Show Resource Boxes
This entry expands the selected nodes (see next section) to show
the new widget and constraint resources. This operation may
also be performed with the Resources(on) translation.
Hide Resource Boxes
This entry removes the resource displays from the selected nodes
(usually to conserve space). This operation may also be per-
formed with the Resources(off) translation.
SELECT MENU
Resources for a single widget class can be displayed by clicking Button2
on the corresponding node, or by adding the node to the selection list
with Button1 and using the Show Resource Boxes entry in the View menu.
Since Button1 actually toggles the selection state of a node, clicking
on a selected node will cause it to be removed from the selected list.
Collections of nodes may also be selected through the various entries in
the Select menu:
Unselect All
This entry removes all nodes from the selection list. This op-
eration may also be performed with the Select(nothing) transla-
tion.
Select All
This entry adds all nodes to the selection list. This operation
may also be performed with the Select(all) translation.
Invert All
This entry adds unselected nodes to, and removes selected nodes
from, the selection list. This operation may also be performed
with the Select(invert) translation.
Select Parent
This entry selects the immediate parents of all selected nodes.
This operation may also be performed with the Select(parent)
translation.
Select Ancestors
This entry recursively selects all parents of all selected
nodes. This operation may also be performed with the Select(an-
cestors) translation.
Select Children
This entry selects the immediate children of all selected nodes.
This operation may also be performed with the Select(children)
translation.
Select Descendants
This entry recursively selects all children of all selected
nodes. This operation may also be performed with the Select(de-
scendants) translation.
Select Has Resources
This entry selects all nodes that add new resources (regular or
constraint) to their corresponding widget classes. This opera-
tion may also be performed with the Select(resources) transla-
tion.
Select Shown Resource Boxes
This entry selects all nodes whose resource boxes are currently
expanded (usually so that they can be closed with Hide Resource
Boxes). This operation may also be performed with the Se-
lect(shown) translation.
ACTIONS
The following application actions are provided:
Quit()
This action causes viewres to exit.
SetLabelType(type)
This action sets the node labels to display the widget variable
or class names, according to the argument type.
SetOrientation(direction)
This action sets the root of the tree to be one of the following
areas of the window: West, North, East, or South.
Select(what)
This action selects the indicated nodes, as described in the
VIEW MENU section: nothing (unselects all nodes), invert, par-
ent, ancestors, children, descendants, resources, shown.
Resources(op)
This action turns on, off, or toggles the resource boxes for the
selected nodes. If invoked from within one of the nodes
(through the keyboard or pointer), only that node is used.
WIDGET HIERARCHY
Resources may be specified for the following widgets:
Viewres viewres
Paned pane
Box buttonbox
Command quit
MenuButton view
SimpleMenu viewMenu
SmeBSB layoutHorizontal
SmeBSB layoutVertical
SmeLine line1
SmeBSB namesVariable
SmeBSB namesClass
SmeLine line2
SmeBSB viewResources
SmeBSB viewNoResources
MenuButton select
SimpleMenu selectMenu
SmeBSB unselect
SmeBSB selectAll
SmeBSB selectInvert
SmeLine line1
SmeBSB selectParent
SmeBSB selectAncestors
SmeBSB selectChildren
SmeBSB selectDescendants
SmeLine line2
SmeBSB selectHasResources
SmeBSB selectShownResources
Form treeform
Porthole porthole
Tree tree
Box variable-name
Toggle variable-name
List variable-name
Panner panner
where variable-name is the widget variable name of each node.
SEE ALSO
X(7), xrdb(1), listres(1), editres(1), appres(1), appropriate widget
documents
AUTHOR
Jim Fulton, MIT X Consortium
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