XrmInitialize(3) XLIB FUNCTIONS XrmInitialize(3)
NAME
XrmInitialize, XrmParseCommand, XrmValue, XrmOptionKind, XrmOptionDe-
scRec - initialize the Resource Manager, Resource Manager structures,
and parse the command line
SYNTAX
#include <X11/Xresource.h>
void XrmInitialize(void);
void XrmParseCommand(XrmDatabase *database, XrmOptionDescList table, int
table_count, _Xconst char *name, int *argc_in_out, char
**argv_in_out);
ARGUMENTS
argc_in_out
Specifies the number of arguments and returns the number of
remaining arguments.
argv_in_out
Specifies the command line arguments and returns the remaining
arguments.
database Specifies the resource database.
name Specifies the application name.
table Specifies the table of command line arguments to be parsed.
table_count
Specifies the number of entries in the table.
DESCRIPTION
The XrmInitialize function initialize the resource manager. It must be
called before any other Xrm functions are used.
The XrmParseCommand function parses an (argc, argv) pair according to
the specified option table, loads recognized options into the specified
database with type “String,” and modifies the (argc, argv) pair to re-
move all recognized options. If database contains NULL, XrmParseCommand
creates a new database and returns a pointer to it. Otherwise, entries
are added to the database specified. If a database is created, it is
created in the current locale.
The specified table is used to parse the command line. Recognized op-
tions in the table are removed from argv, and entries are added to the
specified resource database in the order they occur in argv. The table
entries contain information on the option string, the option name, the
style of option, and a value to provide if the option kind is Xrmoption-
NoArg. The option names are compared byte-for-byte to arguments in
argv, independent of any locale. The resource values given in the table
are stored in the resource database without modification. All resource
database entries are created using a “String” representation type. The
argc argument specifies the number of arguments in argv and is set on
return to the remaining number of arguments that were not parsed. The
name argument should be the name of your application for use in building
the database entry. The name argument is prefixed to the resourceName
in the option table before storing a database entry. The name argument
is treated as a single component, even if it has embedded periods. No
separating (binding) character is inserted, so the table must contain
either a period (.) or an asterisk (*) as the first character in each
resourceName entry. To specify a more completely qualified resource
name, the resourceName entry can contain multiple components. If the
name argument and the resourceNames are not in the Host Portable Charac-
ter Encoding, the result is implementation-dependent.
STRUCTURES
The XrmValue, XrmOptionKind, and XrmOptionDescRec structures contain:
typedef struct {
unsigned int size;
XPointer addr;
} XrmValue, *XrmValuePtr;
typedef enum {
XrmoptionNoArg, /* Value is specified in XrmOptionDescRec.value */
XrmoptionIsArg, /* Value is the option string itself */
XrmoptionStickyArg, /* Value is characters immediately following option */
XrmoptionSepArg, /* Value is next argument in argv */
XrmoptionResArg, /* Resource and value in next argument in argv */
XrmoptionSkipArg, /* Ignore this option and the next argument in argv */
XrmoptionSkipLine, /* Ignore this option and the rest of argv */
XrmoptionSkipNArgs /* Ignore this option and the next
XrmOptionDescRec.value arguments in argv */
} XrmOptionKind;
typedef struct {
char *option; /* Option specification string in argv */
char *specifier; /* Binding and resource name (sans application name) */
XrmOptionKind argKind; /* Which style of option it is */
XPointer value; /* Value to provide if XrmoptionNoArg or
XrmoptionSkipNArgs */
} XrmOptionDescRec, *XrmOptionDescList;
SEE ALSO
XrmGetResource(3), XrmMergeDatabases(3), XrmPutResource(3), XrmUnique-
Quark(3)
Xlib - C Language X Interface
X Version 11 libX11 1.8.12 XrmInitialize(3)
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