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 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 XrmInitialize function initialize the resource man-
       ager.  It must be called before any other Xrm functions
       are used.

       The XrmParseCommand 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 recog-
       nized options.  If database contains NULL, XrmParseCommand
       creates a new database and returns a pointer to it.  Oth-
       erwise, entries are added to the database specified.  If a
       database is created, it is created in the current locale.

       The specified table is used to parse the command line.
       Recognized options in the table are removed from argv, and
       entries are added to the specified resource database in
       ing a database entry.  The name argument is treated as a
       single component, even if it has embedded periods.  No
       separating (binding) character is inserted, so 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.  If the name argu-
       ment and the resourceNames are not in the Host Portable
       Character Encoding, the result is implementation-depen-
       dent.


STRUCTURES

       The XrmValue, XrmOptionKind, and XrmOptionDescRec struc-
       tures contain:

       typedef struct {
            unsigned int size;
            XPointer addr;
       } XrmValue, *XrmValuePtr;

       typedef enum {
            XrmoptionNoArg,     /* Value is specified in XrmOptionDescRec.value */
            XrmoptionIsArg,     /* Value is the option string itself */
            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 this option and the next argument in argv */
            XrmoptionSkipLine,  /* Ignore this option and the rest of argv */
            XrmoptionSkipNArgs  /* Ignore this 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 (sans application name)    */
            XrmOptionKind argKind;/* Which style of option it is    */
            XPointer value;     /* Value to provide if XrmoptionNoArg or
                                   XrmoptionSkipNArgs   */
       } XrmOptionDescRec, *XrmOptionDescList;


SEE ALSO

       XrmGetResource(3X11), XrmMergeDatabases(3X11), XrmPutRe-
       source(3X11), XrmUniqueQuark(3X11)
       Xlib - C Language X Interface



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