hpux man page for xtappgeterb

XtAppGetErrorDatabaseText()											       XtAppGetErrorDatabaseText()

Name
  XtAppGetErrorDatabaseText - get the text of a named message from the error database.

Synopsis
  void XtAppGetErrorDatabaseText(app_context, name, type, class, default, buffer_return, nbytes, database)
	 XtAppContext app_context;
	 String name, type, class;
	 String default;
	 String buffer_return;
	 int nbytes;
	 XrmDatabase database;

Inputs
  app_context
	    Specifies the application context.

  name	    Specifies the name or general kind of the message.

  type	    Specifies the type or detailed name of the message.

  class     Specifies the resource class of the error message.

  default   Specifies the default message to use if an error database entry is not found.

  nbytes    Specifies the size of buffer_return in bytes.

  database  Specifies the database to be used, or NULL if the application's database is to be used.

Outputs
  buffer_return
	    Specifies the buffer into which the error message is to be returned.

Description
  XtAppGetErrorDatabaseText()  looks  up the message named by name, type, and class in database or in the database returned by XtAppGetError-
  Database() for app_context if database is NULL.  If such a message is found, it is stored into  buffer_return,  otherwise  the  message  in
  default is stored into buffer_return.

  The  resource  name of the message is formed by concatenating name and type with a single "." between them.  The resource class of the mes-
  sage is class if it already contains a ".", or otherwise is formed by concatenating class with  itself  with	a  single  "."	 between  the
  strings.

Usage
  You should not need to call XtAppGetErrorDatabaseText() unless you are writing a customized high-level error or warning handler.

  Because the Intrinsics do not support the customization and internationalization of error messages very well, some applications may want to
  read a customized error database (found with XtResolvePathname() or named by an application resource, for example) and  provide  customized
  error and warning handlers that call XtAppGetErrorDatabaseText() specifying this custom database explicitly.

  While the X Toolkit specification permits individual error databases for each application context, most implementations will only support a
  single database.  In the MIT implementation, the error database file is /usr/lib/X11/XtErrorDB.

See Also
  XtAppGetErrorDatabase(1),
  XtErrorMsgHandler(2).

Xt - Error Handling												       XtAppGetErrorDatabaseText()