XrmInitialize(3X11) MIT X11R4 XrmInitialize(3X11)
Name
XrmInitialize, XrmParseCommand, XrmValue, XrmOptionKind, XrmOptionDescRec - initialize the Resource Manager, Resource Manager structures,
and parse the command line
Syntax
void XrmInitialize();
void XrmParseCommand(database, table, table_count, name, argc_in_out, argv_in_out,)
XrmDatabase *database;
XrmOptionDescList 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 a pointer to 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 function initialize the resource manager.
The 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.
The specified table is used to parse the command line. Recognized entries in the table are removed from argv, and entries are made in the
specified resource database. 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 The argc argument specifies the number of arguments in argv and is set to the remaining number of argu-
ments 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 the specification. No separating (binding) character is
inserted. 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.
Structures
The and structures contain:
typedef struct {
unsigned int size;
caddr_t addr;
} XrmValue, *XrmValuePtr;
typedef enum {
XrmoptionNoArg, /* Value specified in
XrmOptionDescRec.value */
XrmoptionIsArg, /* Value is the option string */
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 option and next argument
in argv */
XrmoptionSkipLine, /* Ignore option and the rest of argv */
XrmoptionSkipNArgs /* Ignore 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
(without application name) */
XrmOptionKind argKind; /* Which style of option it is */
caddr_t value; /* Value to provide if XrmoptionNoArg
or XrmoptionSkipNArgs */
} XrmOptionDescRec, *XrmOptionDescList;
See Also
XrmGetResource(3X11), XrmMergeDatabases(3X11), XrmPutResource(3X11), XrmUniqueQuark(3X11)
X Window System: The Complete Reference, Second Edition, Robert W. Scheifler and James Gettys
XrmInitialize(3X11)
