1XrmInitialize(3) XLIB FUNCTIONS XrmInitialize(3)
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6 XrmInitialize, XrmParseCommand, XrmValue, XrmOptionKind, XrmOptionDe‐
7 scRec - initialize the Resource Manager, Resource Manager structures,
8 and parse the command line
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11 #include <X11/Xresource.h>
12 void XrmInitialize(void);
14 void XrmParseCommand(XrmDatabase *database, XrmOptionDescList table,
16 int table_count, _Xconst char *name, int *argc_in_out, char
17 **argv_in_out);
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20 argc_in_out
21 Specifies the number of arguments and returns the number of
22 remaining arguments.
23 argv_in_out
25 Specifies the command line arguments and returns the remain‐
26 ing arguments.
27 database Specifies the resource database.
29 name Specifies the application name.
31 table Specifies the table of command line arguments to be parsed.
33 table_count
35 Specifies the number of entries in the table.
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38 The XrmInitialize function initialize the resource manager. It must be
39 called before any other Xrm functions are used.
40 The XrmParseCommand function parses an (argc, argv) pair according to
42 the specified option table, loads recognized options into the specified
43 database with type “String,” and modifies the (argc, argv) pair to re‐
44 move all recognized options. If database contains NULL, XrmParseCom‐
45 mand creates a new database and returns a pointer to it. Otherwise,
46 entries are added to the database specified. If a database is created,
47 it is created in the current locale.
48 The specified table is used to parse the command line. Recognized op‐
50 tions in the table are removed from argv, and entries are added to the
51 specified resource database in the order they occur in argv. The table
52 entries contain information on the option string, the option name, the
53 style of option, and a value to provide if the option kind is Xrmop‐
54 tionNoArg. The option names are compared byte-for-byte to arguments in
55 argv, independent of any locale. The resource values given in the ta‐
56 ble are stored in the resource database without modification. All re‐
57 source database entries are created using a “String” representation
58 type. The argc argument specifies the number of arguments in argv and
59 is set on return to the remaining number of arguments that were not
60 parsed. The name argument should be the name of your application for
61 use in building the database entry. The name argument is prefixed to
62 the resourceName in the option table before storing a database entry.
63 The name argument is treated as a single component, even if it has em‐
64 bedded periods. No separating (binding) character is inserted, so the
65 table must contain either a period (.) or an asterisk (*) as the first
66 character in each resourceName entry. To specify a more completely
67 qualified resource name, the resourceName entry can contain multiple
68 components. If the name argument and the resourceNames are not in the
69 Host Portable Character Encoding, the result is implementation-depen‐
70 dent.
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73 The XrmValue, XrmOptionKind, and XrmOptionDescRec structures contain:
74 typedef struct {
76 unsigned int size;
77 XPointer addr;
78 } XrmValue, *XrmValuePtr;
79 typedef enum {
81 XrmoptionNoArg, /* Value is specified in XrmOptionDescRec.value */
82 XrmoptionIsArg, /* Value is the option string itself */
83 XrmoptionStickyArg, /* Value is characters immediately following option */
84 XrmoptionSepArg, /* Value is next argument in argv */
85 XrmoptionResArg, /* Resource and value in next argument in argv */
86 XrmoptionSkipArg, /* Ignore this option and the next argument in argv */
87 XrmoptionSkipLine, /* Ignore this option and the rest of argv */
88 XrmoptionSkipNArgs /* Ignore this option and the next
89 XrmOptionDescRec.value arguments in argv */
90 } XrmOptionKind;
91 typedef struct {
93 char *option; /* Option specification string in argv */
94 char *specifier; /* Binding and resource name (sans application name) */
95 XrmOptionKind argKind; /* Which style of option it is */
96 XPointer value; /* Value to provide if XrmoptionNoArg or
97 XrmoptionSkipNArgs */
98 } XrmOptionDescRec, *XrmOptionDescList;
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101 XrmGetResource(3), XrmMergeDatabases(3), XrmPutResource(3), XrmUnique‐
102 Quark(3)
103 Xlib - C Language X Interface
104X Version 11 libX11 1.8.7 XrmInitialize(3)