hpux man page for xtsetsubvalues

XtSetSubvalues()														  XtSetSubvalues()

Name
  XtSetSubvalues - copy resource settings from an ArgList to a subpart resource structure.

Synopsis
  void XtSetSubvalues(base, resources, num_resources, args, num_args)
	 XtPointer base;
	 XtResourceList resources;
	 Cardinal num_resources;
	 ArgList args;
	 Cardinal num_args;

Inputs
  base	    Specifies the base address of the subpart data structure into which the resources should be written.

  resources Specifies the subpart resource list.

  num_resources
	    Specifies the number of resources in the resource list.

  args	    Specifies an argument list of name/value pairs that contain the resource settings to be copied into the subpart data structure.

  num_args  Specifies the number of arguments in the argument list.

Description
  XtSetSubvalues()  copies the values of named resources from args into the structure pointed to by base.  The resource list resources speci-
  fies the size of each resource in this structure, and its offset from base.  The name of each  resource  in  args  is  looked  up  in  this
  resource list, and the resource's specified size and offset are used to copy the resource value into the subpart structure.  If the name of
  a resource in args does not match any of the resources described by resources, then that resource  name/value  pair  in  args  is  silently
  ignored.

  See  XtGetApplicationResources()  for a description of the various fields of a XtResource structure and an example of initializing an XtRe-
  sourceList.

Usage
  If a widget has subpart resources, it can fetch initial values for those resources  from  the  resource  database  by  calling  XtGetSubre-
  sources()  from  its	initialize() method and passing the user's argument list to override values from the database.	In the resource file,
  the subpart will have a name, and the subpart resources will be specified under that name in the resource  hierarchy.   Most	widgets  will
  want	to  allow  the user to set the values of subpart resources from application code as well.  One way to do this is to call XtSetSubval-
  ues() from within the widget's set_values() method, passing the subpart resource list and the user's argument list.  (Prior to  Release  4,
  you  had  to	use  the  set_values_hook()  method  for  this	purpose.)  With this approach, subpart resources seem just like normal widget
  resources to the user; both types of resources can be set by calling XtSetValues().  Another approach is  to	provide  a  special  function
  (which  will use XtSetSubvalues()) to set values of your subpart.  This approach emphasizes that the subpart is a distinct component of the
  widget.

  Note that a more flexible alternative to subparts is to use non-widget objects which the user can create as children of your widget.	 This
  way the user has a handle on the "subparts" and can manipulate them directly.

  To get the values of named resources from a subpart, use XtGetSubvalues().

  To  set resource values in a subpart structure using a NULL-terminated variable-length argument list instead of an ArgList, use XtVaSetSub-
  values().

Structures
  XtResource is defined as follows:

     typedef struct _XtResource {
	String	  resource_name;  /* Resource name */
	String	  resource_class; /* Resource class */
	String	  resource_type;  /* Representation type desired */
	Cardinal  resource_size;  /* Size in bytes of representation */
	Cardinal  resource_offset;/* Offset from base to put resource value */
	String	  default_type;   /* Representation type of specified default */
	XtPointer default_addr;   /* Address of resource default value */
     } XtResource, *XtResourceList;

  See XtGetApplicationResources() for an explanation of the fields of this structure.

  Arg are defined as follows:

     typedef struct {
	 String name;
	 XtArgVal value;
     } Arg, *ArgList;

See Also
  XtGetApplicationResources(1), XtGetSubresources(1), XtGetSubvalues(1),
  set_values(4).

Xt - Resource Management													  XtSetSubvalues()