evgabb@sdrc.UUCP (Rob Gabbard) (10/30/90)
In the HP-VUE manual it lists the alternate location for application default files as the path contained in the environment variable APPLLANGRESATH in the Preliminary Configuration chapter. However it lists it as XAPPLLANGRESDIR in the Application Resources chapter. Anybody have any clue as to which it is ? What's even stranger is that a "strings -o" on vuewm didn't turn up either of these strings nor could I find them in the X11R4 Xt source. -- Rob Gabbard (uunet!sdrc!evgabb) Technical Development Engineer Structural Dynamics Research Corp
julie@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com (Julie Skeen) (11/08/90)
> In the HP-VUE manual it lists the alternate location for application default > files as the path contained in the environment variable APPLLANGRESATH in the > Preliminary Configuration chapter. However it lists it as XAPPLLANGRESDIR in > the Application Resources chapter. Anybody have any clue as to which it is ? > What's even stranger is that a "strings -o" on vuewm didn't turn up either of > these strings nor could I find them in the X11R4 Xt source. > ---------- > Rob Gabbard (uunet!sdrc!evgabb) > Technical Development Engineer > Structural Dynamics Research Corp > ---------- The HP-VUE manual is in error. VUE uses the "standard" Xt mechanism for getting app-default files, via XtResolvePathname(). VUE uses R4 Xt, and the method for determining where to get the app-defaults is to first use the environment variable XUSERFILESEARCHPATH if it is defined, if not, then use XAPPLRESDIR. The idea is pretty much the same as in R3 Xt, just the names have changed. It makes sense that you wouldn't find any strings for this in vuewm, since we don't over-ride the normal mechanism. I think that if you look in Xt for the strings I have given you, or search for uses of getenv, you will see the new environment variables. Thanks for bringing this up, so that we can fix our manuals. Julie Skeen
julie@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com (Julie Skeen) (11/08/90)
I should also mention the environment variable XFILESEARCHPATH, which is used to specify an alternate location for the system app-defaults, as compared to the user-specified resources. For more complete information, including other environment variables and their use in generating search paths, see section 11.11 and section 2.2 of the R4 "Programming With the Xt Intrinsics" manual. Hope this helps. Julie Skeen