gah@arnor.uucp (12/03/90)
Well I began experimenting to see what could be done... now I have a problem I don't understand. I have added to my parent process the use of XtParseCommand() and use XtGetFileDataBase() to read in all those sources of options/defaults and built up a dataBase. The parent takes some information out of the dataBase and adds a bit more from within the application. Now the parent forks off the child destined to be my X interface. Child does successfully get some some configuration data from the dataBase... BUT! All of the old .Xdefaults info that used to configure my widgets seems to have bought the farm. I have not removed any of the old code that got .Xdefaults and have not explicitly applied my dataBase to configure widgets. So I'm a bit mystified as to what has happened. I am going to experiment with reversing the process hierarchy, but that's just a bandaid... cause I don't understand what is going on. I'd appreciate any insight. -- thx, g