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XLIB FUNCTIONS                                XrmInitialize(3x11)



NAME
     XrmInitialize, XrmParseCommand, XrmValue, XrmOptionKind,
     XrmOptionDescRec - initialize the Resource Manager, Resource
     Manager structures, and parse the command line

SYNTAX
     cc [ flag... ] file... -lX11 [ library... ]

     void XrmInitialize(void);

     void XrmParseCommand(XrmDatabase *database, XrmOptionDes-
          cList table, int table_count, 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 remove 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 options 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 infor-
     mation on the option string, the option name, the style of
     option, and a value to provide if the option kind is



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     XrmoptionNoArg.  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 data-
     base 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 data-
     base entry.  The name argument is prefixed to the resour-
     ceName 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 resour-
     ceName 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 Character 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(3x11), XrmMergeDatabases(3x11),



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XLIB FUNCTIONS                                XrmInitialize(3x11)



     XrmPutResource(3x11), XrmUniqueQuark(3x11)
     Xlib - C Language X Interface


ATTRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attri-
     butes:

     ____________________________________________________________
    |       ATTRIBUTE TYPE        |       ATTRIBUTE VALUE       |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|
    | Availability                | x11/library/libx11          |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|
    | Interface Stability         | Committed                   |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|
    | MT-Level                    | See XInitThreads(3X11)      |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|






































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