XtAppCreateShell(3Xt) MIT X11R4 XtAppCreateShell(3Xt)
Name
XtAppCreateShell - create top-level widget instance
Syntax
Widget XtAppCreateShell(application_name, application_class, widget_class, display, args, num_args)
String application_name;
String application_class;
WidgetClass widget_class;
Display *display;
ArgList args;
Cardinal num_args;
Arguments
application_class
Specifies the class name of this application.
application_name
Specifies the name of the application instance.
args Specifies the argument list in which to set in the WM_COMMAND property.
display Specifies the display from which to get the resources.
num_args Specifies the number of arguments in the argument list.
widget_class
Specifies the widget class that the application top-level widget should be.
Description
The function saves the specified application name and application class for qualifying all widget resource specifiers. The application
name and application class are used as the left-most components in all widget resource names for this application. should be used to cre-
ate a new logical application within a program or to create a shell on another display. In the first case, it allows the specification of
a new root in the resource hierarchy. In the second case, it uses the resource database associated with the other display.
Note that the widget returned by has the WM_COMMAND property set for session managers (see Chapter 4).
See Also
XtCreateWidget(3Xt)
X Window System Toolkit: The Complete Programmer's Guide and Specification, Paul J. Asente and Ralph Swick
X Window System: The Complete Reference, Second Edition, Robert W. Scheifler and James Gettys
XtAppCreateShell(3Xt)
