xview(7) Miscellaneous Information Manual xview(7)
NAME
xview - xview toolkit information
SYNOPSIS
There is no xview command per se, but this manual page will briefly describe XView features and functions.
AVAILABILITY
XView is available with the OpenWindows distribution.
DESCRIPTION
XView (X Window-System-based Visual/Integrated Environment for Workstations) is an Open Look user-interface toolkit which supports develop-
ment of interactive, graphics-based applications running under the X Window System. For detailed information see the XView Programming
Manual and the XView Reference Manual.
USAGE
Compiling XView Programs
XView programs are compiled with the following command line:
cc sourcefile.c -o outputfile -lxview -lolgx -lX11
Generic XView Functions
xv_init() Establishes the connection to the server, initializes the Notifier and the Defaults/Resource-Manager database, loads the
Server Resource-Manager database, reads any passed attributes, and installs a default X11 Errorhandler.
Xv_Server
xv_init(attrs)
<attribute-value list> attrs;
Note: attrs is a NULL terminated attribute-value list.
xv_create() Creates an object.
Xv_object
xv_create(owner, package, attrs)
Xv_object owner;
Xv_pkg package;
<attribute-value list> attrs;
xv_destroy() Destroys an object.
int
xv_destroy(object)
Xv_opaque object;
xv_find() Finds an object that meets certain criteria; or if the object doesn't exist, creates it (default behavior which can be
defeated using XV_AUTO_CREATE, FALSE).
Xv_opaque
xv_find(owner, package, attrs)
Xv_object owner;
Xv_pkg package;
<attribute-value list> attrs;
xv_get() Gets the value of a single attribute.
Xv_opaque
xv_get(object, attrs)
Xv_object object;
<attribute-value list> attrs;
xv_set() Sets the value of one or more attributes.
Xv_opaque
xv_set(object, attrs)
Xv_object object;
<attribute-value list> attrs;
Internationalized Support
XView now has support for internationalization. This includes locale setting, localized text handling, and dynamic object layout. See the
XView Programming Manual for details.
Command Line Resource Arguments
XView-based applications display characteristics can be controlled by supplying command line arguments to the applications at start-up.
The usage is as follows:
% program -argument1 value1 -argument2 value2...
In the tables below, Argument(s) shows the short argument followed by the long argument--either can be used. Type describes the type of
value the arguments can receive. Resource describes the X resource name modified by the arguments. Default is the default value.
Description describes what the arguments do. Example shows an example of a command using the argument.
Argument(s): -Wx, or -scale
Type: string ("small", "medium", "large", "extra_large")
Resource: Window.Scale
Default: medium
Description: Sets the initial scale of the application (larger or smaller). small is 10 pixels, medium is 12 pixels, large is 14 pixels
and extra_Large is 19 pixels. The font.name resource will override the scale.
Example: cmdtool -scale extra_large
Argument(s): -Wt, -fn, or -font
Type: string
Resource: Font.Name
Default: lucidasans-12
Description: Sets the name of the font used for the application. Does not set the font for frame header and frame menu header. These
are controlled by the window manager. To find out what fonts are available, use the xlsfonts(1) command. If the font you
specify cannot be found, you will see an error message such as:
XView warning: Cannot load font 'galant-24' (Font package)
XView warning: Attempting to load font '-b&h-lucida-medium-r-normal-sans-*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*' instead (Font package)
Example: cmdtool -fn fixed
Argument(s): -Ws, or -size
Type: integer integer
Resource: Window.Width and Window.Height
Default: depends on application
Description: Sets the width and height of the application's base frame. The values are in pixels.
Example: cmdtool -Ws 400 500
Argument(s): -Ww, or -width
Type: int (number of columns)
Resource: window.columns
Default: None
Description: Specifies the width, in columns, of the application.
Example: cmdtool -width 40
(starts a command tool 40 columns wide)
Argument(s): -Wh, or -height
Type: int (number of columns)
Resource: window.rows
Default: None
Description: Specifies the height, in rows, of the application.
Example: cmdtool -height 40
(starts a command tool 40 rows high)
Argument(s): -Wp, or -position
Type: integer integer
Resource: Window.X and Window.Y
Default: depends on window manager
Description: Sets the initial position of the application's base frame in pixels. The upper left corner of the screen is at position
(0,0), with the x-axis increasing to the left, and the y-axis increasing downward. These values will also be generated by
the "Save Workspace" option on the root menu into the $HOME/.openwin-init file when using the Open Look Window Manager.
Example: cmdtool -Wp 100 200
Argument(s): -WG, or -geometry
Type: string of the format <width>x<height>{+-}<xoffset>{+-}<yoffset>
Resource: Window.Geometry
Default: depends on application and window manager
Description: This sets both the size and the placement of the application's base frame. This option has priority over the -size and
-position arguments. The size and placement parts of the value are optional. You can set just the size, just the position,
or both. The size values are measured in pixels, and the position values use the same semantics as -position. However, if
you use the '-' in front of an X value, it will be taken as relative to the right hand side of the screen, instead of the
left. Likewise, if you use the '-' with the Y value, it will be taken relative to the bottom of the screen instead of the
top.
Examples:
cmdtool -geometry 500x600
(will make the base frame 500x600 pixels, with the position set by the window manager)
cmdtool -WG +10+20
(will make the base frame of default size with the left hand side of the frame 10 pixels from the left hand side of the
screen, and the top of the frame 20 pixels from the top of the screen)
cmdtool -WG -10+20
(will make the base frame of default size with the right hand side of the frame 10 pixels from the right hand side of the
screen, and the top of the frame 20 pixels from the top of the screen)
cmdtool -geometry 400x300-0-0
(will make the base frame 400x300 pixels with the right hand side of the frame flush against the right hand side of the
screen, and the bottom of the frame flush with the bottom of the screen)
Argument(s): -WP, -icon_position
Type: integer integer
Resource: Icon.X Icon.Y
Default: depends on window manager
Description: Sets the position of the application's icon in pixels. Uses the same semantics as -position for base frames.
Example: cmdtool -WP 400 20
Argument(s): -Wl, -label, or -title
Type: string
Resource: Window.Header
Default: N/A
Description: Sets a default label for the base frame's header. However, the application can overwrite this setting and display its own
header.
Example: cmdtool -Wl "Header Text"
Argument(s): -Wi, and +Wi
Type: boolean
Resource: Window.Iconic
Default: +Wi
Description: Controls how an application will come up, open or closed (iconified).
Examples: cmdtool +Wi (will make the cmdtool come up open)
cmdtool -Wi (will make the cmdtool come up closed)
Argument(s): -depth
Type: integer
Resource: Window.Depth
Default: Depth of server's default visual
Description: Specifies the depth of base frame. If this depth is not supported by the server, the default depth will be used instead.
If this is specified in conjunction with -visual, then the exact visual will be used.
Example: cmdtool -depth 4
Argument(s): -visual
Type: string (one of the values: StaticGray, GrayScale, StaticColor, PseudoColor, TrueColor, or DirectColor).
Resource: Window.Visual
Default: Server's default visual
Description: Specifies the visual class of the base frame. If this visual class is not supported by the server, the default visual class
will be used instead. If this is specified in conjunction with -depth, then the exact visual will be used.
Example: cmdtool -visual StaticGray
Argument(s): -Wf, or -foreground_color
Type: integer integer integer
Resource: Window.Color.Foreground
Default: 0 0 0
Description See Description in -Wb below.
Argument(s): -Wb, or -background
Type: integer integer integer
Resource: Window.Color.Background
Default: 255 255 255
Description: These options allow the user to specify the foreground color (e.g., the color of the text in a textsw), or the background
color (e.g., the color that the text is painted on) of an application. The three values should be integers between 0 and
255. They specify the amount of red, green and blue that is in the color. See -fg and -bg below for information on simi-
lar functions.
Example: cmdtool -Wf 0 0 255 -Wb 100 100 100
(would come up with a blue foreground, with a gray background)
Argument(s): -fg, or -foreground
Type: string (color name, or hexadecimal color specification)
Resource: Window.Color.Foreground
Default: black
Description: See Description in -bg below.
Argument(s): -bg, or -background
Type: string (color name, or hexadecimal color specification)
Resource: Window.Color.Background
Default: white
Description: These options are similar to the -Wf and -Wb options, except that they take a color argument in the form of a predefined
color name (lavender, grey, goldenrod, etc.) from $OPENWINHOME/lib/rbg.txt, or a hexadecimal representation. The hexadeci-
mal representation is of the form pound sign (#) followed by the hexadecimal representation of the red, green and blue
aspects of the color.
Examples: cmdtool -fg blue -bg gray
(comes up with a blue foreground, with a gray background)
cmdtool -fg #d800ff -bg white
(comes up with a purple foreground, with a white background)
Argument(s): -WI, or -icon_image
Type: string
Resource: Icon.Pixmap
Default: depends on application
Description: Sets the default filename for the icon's image. However, the application can overwrite this setting and display its own
icon image. The file must be in XView icon format. The program iconedit(1) will allow one to create an image in the icon
format. Several icons have been provided in the directory $OPENWINHOME/include/images. By convention, icon format files
end with the suffix .icon.
Example: cmdtool -WI /usr/include/images/stop.icon
Argument(s): -WL, or -icon_label
Type: string
Resource: Icon.Footer
Default: depends on application
Description: Sets a default label for the base frame's icon. However, the application can overwrite this setting and display its own
icon label.
Example: cmdtool -WL "Icon Label"
Argument(s): -WT, or -icon_font
Type: string
Resource: Icon.Font.Name
Default: depends
Description: Sets the name of the font used for the application's icon.
Example: cmdtool -WT '*century schoolbook*'
Argument(s): -Wd, or -default
Type: string string
Resource: given by the first string
Default: none
Description: This option allows the user to set resources that don't have command line equivalents. The format is -default resource-name
value . The XView resources without specific command line arguments are discussed in the following section.
Example: cmdtool -default OpenWindows.ScrollbarPlacement left
Argument(s): -xrm
Type: string
Resource: given in the string
Default: none
Description: This option allows the user to set resources that don't have command line equivalents. This is similar to the -default
option, but it takes only one argument, a string in the form of resource-name:value.
Example: cmdtool -xrm OpenWindows.ScrollbarPlacement:right
Argument(s): -WH, or -help
Type: none
Resource: none
Default: none
Description: Prints a description of the valid xview command line arguments for the application.
Argument(s): -sync or -synchronous, and +sync or +synchronous
Type: boolean
Resource: Window.Synchronous
Default: +synchronous
Description: These options allow you to make the connection that the application has with the X11 server either synchronous (-sync) or
asynchronous (+sync).
Argument(s): -Wr, or -display
Type: string (host:display{.screen})
Resource: Server.Name
Default: taken from the DISPLAY environment variable
Description: Sets the name of the X11 server on which to connect. host is the name or address of the machine on whose server you have
permission to display. display is a number corresponding to the server on which to display for that machine, and screen
corresponds to which screen for the server. See reference manual page on xhost(1) for more details on adding to permissions
list.
Examples: cmdtool -display foobar:0
(will bring up a cmdtool on the default screen of the display #0 of host foobar)
cmdtool -display foobar:0.1
(will bring up a cmdtool on screen #1 of display #0 of host foobar)
Argument(s): -Wdxio, or -disable_xio_error_handler
Type: boolean
Resource: none
Default: enable xio handler--this option disables it
Description: This option is useful for debugging an application. Whenever there is a fatal XIO error, the server will print an error
message before exiting. XView installs a error handler to keep those messages from appearing. If you would like to see
these messages, use this option.
Argument(s) -rv (or -reverse), and +rv (or +reverse)
Type: boolean
Resource: Window.ReverseVideo
Default: False
Description: These options control whether the foreground and background colors of the application will be reversed. If True, the fore-
ground and background colors will be swapped. The -rv flag will set this to True, while the +rv will set it to False. This
is really only useful on monochrome displays.
Argument(s): -name
Type: string
Resource: None
Default: argv[0]
Description: Specifies the instance name of the application. This name is used to construct the resource name used to perform lookups in
the X11 Resource Manager to look for the values of customizable attributes.
Internationalized Command Line Resource Arguments
The following command line arguments are relevant to internationalization. Locale refers to the language and cultural conventions used in
a program. Locale setting is the method by which the language and cultural environment of a system is set. Locale setting affects the dis-
play and manipulation of language-dependent features.
The internationalization features that XView now supports include locale setting. One of the ways locale can be set is with command line
options. See the XView Programming Manual for details on other methods.
Argument(s): -lc_basiclocale
Type: string
Resource: basicLocale
Default: "C"
Description: Specifies the basic locale category, which sets the country of the user interface.
Argument(s): -lc_displaylang
Type: string
Resource: displayLang
Default: "C"
Description: Specifies the display language locale category, sets the language in which labels, messages, menu items, and help text are
displayed.
Argument(s): -lc_inputlang
Type: string
Resource: inputLang
Default: "C"
Description: Specifies the input language locale category, sets the language used for keyboard input.
Argument(s): -lc_numeric
Type: string
Resource: numeric
Default: "C"
Description: Specifies the numeric locale category, which defines the language used to format numeric quantities.
Argument(s): -lc_timeformat
Type: string
Resource: timeFormat
Default: "C"
Description: Specifies the time format locale category, which defines the language used to format time and date.
Command Line Options/X Resources for Debugging
The following switches/resources can be used during development to avoid the locking up of screens or other effects of X grabs that are
done by XView.
It should be noted that these options/resources should only be used by developers and are not for normal usage. The X grabs are done for a
specific reason, and are not meant to be customizable. Without the X grabs, certain features in XView (those that depend on X grabs) might
not function properly.
Argument(s): -Wfsdb, or -fullscreendebug
Type: boolean
Resource: Fullscreen.Debug
Default: FALSE
Description: Enables/disables fullscreen debugging mode during which X grabs (XGrabServer(), XGrabKeyboard(), XGrabPointer()) are not
done. When using the fullscreen pkg, the X11 server will be grabbed which prevents other windows on the server from
responding until the grab has been released by the one window which initiated the grab. Refer to Appendix F in the XView
Manual: Converting SunView Applications for further details.
Argument(s): -Wfsdbs, or -fullscreendebugserver
Type: boolean
Resource: Fullscreen.Debugserver
Default: FALSE
Description: Enables/disables server grabbing (XGrabServer()) that is done via the fullscreen pkg. Refer to the Appendix F in the XView
Manual: Converting SunView Applications for further details.
Argument(s): -Wfsdbk, or -fullscreendebugkbd
Type: boolean
Resource: Fullscreen.Debugkbd
Default: FALSE
Description: Enables/disables keyboard grabbing (XGrabKeyboard()) that is done via the fullscreen pkg. Refer to the Appendix F in the
XView Manual: Converting SunView Applications for further details.
Argument(s): -Wfsdbp, or -fullscreendebugptr
Type: boolean
Resource: Fullscreen.Debugptr
Default: FALSE
Description: Enables/disables pointer grabbing (XGrabPointer()) that is done via the fullscreen pkg. Refer to the Appendix F in the
XView Manual: Converting SunView Applications for further details.
Argument(s): -Wdpgs, or -disable_pass_grab_select
Type: boolean
Resource: Window.PassiveGrab.Select
Default: TRUE
Description: Disables the passive grab that is done on the SELECT button. XView does a passive grab on the SELECT button to avoid input
focus race conditions. When this passive grab is disabled, input focus race conditions may be seen.
Example: % cmdtool -disable_pass_grab_select
This executes a cmdtool that does not perform any passive grabs on the SELECT button. To do the same thing using X
resources, add the following entry to the X resource database:
Window.PassiveGrab.Select:False
.Xdefaults File
The .Xdefaults file is used to store and retrieve resource settings. We recommend, however, that you use the command line arguments
described above in order to change display characteristics. Changing the resources in the .Xdefaults file will modify the behaviour of the
user's session. Novice users should not casually hand modify these settings. Before attempting edits to this file please read the appro-
priate sections of the Xlib Programming Manual on the file format and the specific properties you intend to change.
Note that resources documented below do not have command line arguments. It is still possible, however, to change them without altering
the .Xdefaults file. Refer to the command line arguments -xrm and -defaults for instructions on how to to this. Additional resources that
have command line arguments are documented in the previous section. For mouseless resources refer to the XView Programming Manual.
The resources are documented in the following format:
Resource: Resource Name ( If the resource can be modified by the OpenWindows Property Sheet, the word Props will be present.)
Values: Possible Values, and/or Format of Values to be Assigned to Resource (Default Value)
Description Description of Resource.
Resource: window.synchronous, +sync -sync
Values: True, False (False)
Description Useful when debugging or tracking down a problem since the error codes emitted from Xlib will correspond to the immediate
request made. Running in a synchronous mode will cause the application to run significantly slower.
Resource: mouse.modifier.button2
Values: Shift, Ctrl, any valid modifier keysym (Shift)
Description When using a mouse with less than three buttons, this resource gets an equivalent mapping for the second button which is the
ADJUST button on a three button mouse. For more information on keysyms, see the xmodmap(1) reference manual page, Xlib doc-
umentation, and the include file $OPENWINHOME/include/X11/Xkeymap.h.
Resource: mouse.modifier.button3
Values: Shift, Ctrl, any valid modifier keysym (Ctrl)
Description When using a mouse with less than three buttons, this resource gets an equivalent mapping for the third button which is the
MENU button on a three button mouse. For more information on keysyms, see the xmodmap reference manual page, Xlib documenta-
tion, and the include file $OPENWINHOME/include/X11/Xkeymap.h.
Resource: OpenWindows.beep (Props)
Values: never, notices, always (always)
Description When the value is notices, the audible bell will ring only when a notice pops up. When the value is never, the audible bell
will never ring. When the value is always, the audible bell will always ring when the bell function is called by a program.
Resource: alarm.visible
Values: True, False (True)
Description When ringing the bell in an XView program, flash the window as well to alert the user.
OpenWindows.windowColor (Props)
Values: any valid X11 color specification (#cccccc--80% grey)
Description Specify the base color for control areas for 3-D look. Takes hexadecimal representation. Three other colors used for shad-
ing and highlighting are calculated based upon the value of the specified control color. The actual calculated values are
done by the OLGX library to provide a consistent color calculation between XView and OLWM. The desktop properties program
allows a full range of customization and previews what the chosen 3-D look will look like. Does not apply to monochrome
displays.
Resource: OpenWindows.workspaceColor (Props)
Values: any valid X11 color specification (#cccccc--80% grey)
Description Specifies the color for the root window and the background color for icons that blend into the desktop.
Resource: xview.icccmcompliant
Values: True, False (True)
Description When False, tells XView to set window manager hints in a way that was used before the ICCCM was adopted. Useful for window
managers that were released before X11R4. Not needed with the Open Look Window Manager provided with Open Windows.
Resource: OpenWindows.3DLook.Color
Values: True, False (True on all but monochrome screens)
Description When False, do not use the 3-D look on a color or greyscale screen.
Resource: OpenWindows.dragRightDistance (Props)
Values: N (100)
Description Used by menus to determine when a pullright submenu would display when dragging over the menu item near a submenu. N is an
integer greater than 0. A reasonable value might start at 20 and go to 200 or so. May need to try different values to see
what feels best to each person.
Resource: Selection.Timeout
Values: N (3)
Description: Selection timeout value. N indicates the number of seconds that a requestor or a selection owner waits for a response.
Resource: OpenWindows.GotoMenu.RecentCount
Values: integer between 0 and 15 (8)
Description: Specifies the number of recently visited directories shown in the Go To Menu of a File Chooser.
Resource: OpenWindows.GotoMenu.UserDirs
Values: string-list (NULL)
Description: new-line (0 separated list of full-path names to directories that is added to the top of the Go To Menu of a File Chooser.
Resource: OpenWindows.KeyboardCommand.*
Description: These resources determine mouseless semantic action and its corresponding key binding. Refer to the XView Reference Manual
for a complete listing and explanation of the OpenWindows.KeyboardCommand.* resources. Refer to the XView Programming Man-
ual for information on the mouseless model.
Resource: OpenWindows.KeyboardCommands
Values: SunView1, Basic, or Full
Description: Controls the level of mouseless operation. All of the OpenWindows.KeyboardCommand resource mappings may be modified by
users, or by specifying one the the three values for OpenWindows.KeyboardCommands. For detailed information see the XView
Programming Manual
Resource: OpenWindows.MenuAccelerators
Values: True or False (True)
Description: Specifies whether or not to activate all keyboard menu acceleration defined by applications. Menu accelerators are key-
strokes that can be used to invoke menu commands directly. They can be seen on the right side of frequently used menu items
as a set of keyboard qualifiers (with a graphical diamond mark representing the meta key) and an accelerator key.
Resource: OpenWindows.MouseChordMenu
Values: True, False (False)
Description: Turns on the mouse chording mechanism. Mouse chording was implemented to allow XView to work with two-button mice. Pressing
the SELECT and the ADJUST buttons at the same time will act as MENU button.
Resource: OpenWindows.MouseChordTimeout
Values: N (100)
Description: Mouse chording time-out value. N is in micro-seconds.
Resource: OpenWindows.SelectDisplaysMenu (Props)
Values: True, False (False)
Description When True, the SELECT button (usually left mouse) will display the menu as well as the MENU button (usually right mouse).
Resource: OpenWindows.popupJumpCursor (Props)
Values: True, False (False)
Description When False, do not warp the mouse to the notice when it appears.
Resource: notice.beepCount
Values: N (1)
Description Where N is an integer to specify how many times to ring the bell when a notice appears.
Resource: OpenWindows.scrollbarPlacement (Props)
Values: Left, Right (Right)
Description When set to Left, put all scrollbars on the lefthand side of the window or object.
Resource: OpenWindows.multiClickTimeout (Props)
Values: N (4)
Description Where N is an integer greater than 2. Set the number of tenths of a second between clicks for a multi-click. A click is
button-down, button-up pair.
Resource: text.delimiterChars
Values: string (' 11!"#$%&'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\]^_`{|}~')
Description This resource allows the user to select the delimiter characters that are used when doing word level selections in the XView
package. It was added because of the needs of the international marketplace, and it allows the user to define the local
delimiters for the character set that is being used with the current keyboard and Sun workstation.
Note that the octal characters can be scrambled by Xrm during a rewrite of the value of text.delimiter.Chars. Xrm inter-
prets the text.delimiterChar string when it is loaded. Specifically it will decode the backslashed portions of the string
and convert them to octal representations. When this is passed to the client application, the logic will function cor-
rectly. However, this misbehavior of Xrm causes the string to be stored incorrectly if the user saves the .Xdefaults file
using the Xrm content of the string. The specific problem(s) that occur are the stripping of the backslash characters and
the expansion of the tab character ( 11).
To correct this problem, one can put the text.delimiterChar entry into an .Xdefaults file that will not be overwritten when
saving the workspace properties (for example, a system wide defaults file). Or a copy of the text.delimiterChar entry can
be inserted after .Xdefaults file saves.
Resource: scrollbar.jumpCursor (Props)
Values: True, False (True)
Description When False, the scrollbar will not move the mouse pointer when scrolling.
Resource: scrollbar.repeatDelay
Values: N (100)
Description Where N is some integer greater than 2. Specifies the time in milliseconds when a click becomes a repeated action.
Resource: scrollbar.pageInterval
Values: N (100)
Description Where N is some integer greater than 2. Specifies the time in milliseconds between repeats of a single page scroll.
Resource: scrollbar.lineInterval
Values: N (1)
Description Where N is some integer greater than 0. Specifies the time in milliseconds between repeats of a single line scroll. How
long to pause scrolling when holding down the SELECT button on the scrollbar elevator. Scrollbar sets up a timer routine
for repeats.
Resource: text.maxDocumentSize
Values: N (2000)
Description Where N specifies the bytes used in memory before a text file is saved to a file on disk. Once this limit is exceeded, the
text package will send a notice to the user to tell them that no more insertions are possible. If the file being edited is
saved to a file, or it is a disk file being edited, then the limit does not apply.
Resource: text.retained
Values: True, False (False)
Description If True, retain text windows with server backing store.
Resource: text.extrasMenuFilename
Values: filename (/usr/lib/.text_extras_menu)
Description Where filename is an absolute location to a file. Can also be set via environment variable EXTRASMENU. This file is used
for the text package's Extras menu. The commands specified in the extras menu are applied to the contents of the current
selection in the textsw window and then it inserts the results at the current insertion point.
Resource: text.enableScrollbar
Values: True, False (True)
Description When False, do not put a scrollbar on textsw objects.
Resource: text.againLimit
Values: N (1)
Description Where N is an integer between 0 and 500. Number of operations the "again history" remembers for a textsw.
Resource: text.autoIndent
Values: True, False (False)
Description When True, begin the next line at the same indentation as the previous line as typing in text.
Resource: text.autoScrollBy
Values: N (1)
Description Where N is an integer between 0 and 100. Specifies the number of lines to scroll when type-in moves insertion point below
the view.
Resource: text.confirmOverwrite
Values: True, False (True)
Description When False, do not give user confirmation if a save will overwrite an existing file.
Resource: text.displayControlChars
Values: True, False (True)
Description When False, use an up arrow plus a letter to display the control character instead of the character that is available for
the current font.
Resource: Text.DeleteReplacesClipboard
Values: True, False (False)
Description This resource controls whether text that has been selected and then deleted by the delete key or replaced by any other key-
stroke will be copied to the clipboard. If the value is True, then the selected text will be copied to the clipboard. If
the value is False, then the text selected does not replace the clipboard.
This resource also applies to the text selected for the filter function. If the resource is True, then the text selected
for a filter function will replace the clipboard when the filter successfully finishes. If the resource is False, then the
text selected does not replace the clipboard.
Resource: text.undoLimit
Values: N (50 maximum of 500)
Description Where N is an integer between 0 and 500. How many operations to save in the undo history log. These operations will be
undone when you press the "Undo" key in the text window.
Resource: text.insertMakesCaretVisible
Values: If_auto_scroll (Always)
Description Controls whether insertion causes repositioning to make inserted text visible.
Resource: text.lineBreak
Values: Clip, Wrap_char, Wrap_word (Wrap_word)
Description Determines how the textsw treats file lines when they are too big to fit on one display line.
Resource: text.margin.bottom
Values: N (0)
Description Where N is an integer between -1 and 50. Specifies the minimum number of lines to maintain between insertion point and bot-
tom of view. A value of -1 turns auto scrolling off.
Resource: mouse.multiclick.space
Values: N (4)
Description Where N is an integer between 2 and 500. Specifies the maximum number of pixels between successive mouse clicks to still
have the clicks considered as a multi-click event.
Resource: text.storeChangesFile
Values: True, False (True)
Description When False, do not change the name of the current file being edited to the name of the file that is stored. The name of the
current file is reflected in the titlebar of the textedit frame.
Resource: text.margin.top
Values: N (2)
Description Where N is an integer between -1 and 50. Specifies the minimum number of lines to maintain between the start of the selec-
tion and the top of the view. A value of -1 means defeat normal actions.
Resource: text.margin.left
Values: N (8)
Description Where N is an integer between 0 and 2000. Specifies the margin in pixels that the text should maintain between the left
hand border of the window and the first character on each line.
Resource: text.margin.right
Values: N (0)
Description Where N is an integer between 0 and 2000. Specifies the margin in pixels that the text should maintain between the right
hand border of the window and the last character on each line.
Resource: text.tabWidth
Values: N (8)
Description Where N is an integer between 0 and 50. Specifies the width in characters of the tab character.
Resource: Text.LineSpacing
Values: N (0)
Description Where N is an integer which is the percentage of the maximum height of a character in the Textsw window font to use as
interline spacing. Setting Text.LineSpacing to a nonzero positive number will increase the size of a Textsw proportionally.
xv_set() of WIN_ROWS will still yield the correct number of rows. However, the window will be taller as compared to a
Textsw with Text.LineSpacing set to 0. This resource allows XView to conform to TUV requirements. To meet TUV require-
ments, set Text.LineSpacing to 15 or greater.
Resource: term.boldStyle
Values: None, Offset_X, Offset_Y, Offset_X_and_Y, Offset_XY, Offset_X_and_XY, Offset_Y_and_XY, Offset_X_and_Y_and_XY, Invert
(Invert)
Description Specify the text bolding style for a terminal based window.
Resource: term.inverseStyle
Values: Enable, Disable, Same_as_bold (Enable)
Description Specify the text inverting style for a terminal based window.
Resource: term.underlineStyle
Values: Enable, Disable, Same_as_bold (Enable)
Description Specify the text underlining style for a terminal based window.
Resource: term.useAlternateTtyswrc
Values: True, False (True)
Description When True, and a $HOME/.ttyswrc is not found, look for an alternate ttyswrc file. When False, do not look for an alternate
file is one is not found in the home directory, $HOME/.ttyswrc.
Resource: term.alternateTtyswrc
Values: filename ($XVIEWHOME/lib/.ttyswrc)
Description Where filename specifies a complete filename and absolute path of an alternate ttyswrc file. This is only used if a
.ttyswrc file is not found in $HOME/.ttyswrc and term.useAlternateTtyswrc is True.
Resource: term.enableEdit
Values: True, False (True)
Description When False, do not keep an editlog of what has been typed into the term window. This is set to false automatically when
switching from a scrollable term to one that is not scrollable.
Resource: ttysw.eightBitOutput
Values: True, False (True)
Description This resource controls whether characters modified by the meta modifier are encoded as eight-bit characters when passed to
the ttysw's pty or are delivered as seven-bit characters.
Resource: ttysw.yieldModifiers
Values:
Meta, Alt (The default is to not remove any semantic meaning from any modifiers)
Description This resource takes as a value a list of modifier keys. Any semantic meaning (mouseless command or keyboard accelerator)
that would normally be associated with the listed modifiers when the keyboard focus is in a ttysw or termsw would be
removed.
ENVIRONMENT
$OPENWINHOME is the directory in which the server's directory hierarchy is installed.
$DISPLAY is the name of the server and screen to which applications should display.
$LD_LIBRARY_PATH is the SunOS shared library search path.
$HELPPATH is the path that applications will search for Open Look Help files.
FILES
$OPENWINHOME/include/images
XView images
$OPENWINHOME/lib XView Libraries
$OPENWINHOME/include
Include files
$OPENWINHOME/bin Binaries
$OPENWINHOME/share/src/xview/demos
XView demo programs
$OPENWINHOME/share/src/xview/examples
XView example programs
SEE ALSO
openwin(1), xnews(1), xlsfonts(1), xmodmap(1), iconedit(1)
24 December 1991 xview(7)