tools/perl-5.8.0/lib/site_perl/5.8.0/sun4-solaris/Tk/Xrm.pod


=head1 NAME

Tk::Xrm - X Resource/Defaults/Options routines that obey the rules.

=for pm Tk/Xrm.pm

=for category Creating and Configuring Widgets

=head1 SYNOPSIS

   use Tk;
   use Tk::Xrm;

=head1 DESCRIPTION

Using this modules causes Tk's Option code to be replaced by versions
which use routines from <X11/Xresource.h> - i.e. same ones every other
X toolkit uses.

Result is that "matching" of name/Class with the options database follows
the same rules as other X toolkits. This makes it more predictable,
and makes it easier to have a single ~/.Xdefaults file which gives sensible
results for both Tk and (say) Motif applications.

=head1 BUGS

Currently B<optionAdd>(I<key> =E<gt> I<value>?, I<priority>?) ignores optional
priority completely and just does XrmPutStringResource().
Perhaps it should be more subtle and do XrmMergeDatabases() or
XrmCombineDatabase().

This version is a little slower than Tk's re-invention but there is
more optimization that can be done.

=head1 SEE ALSO

L<Tk::option|Tk::option>

=head1 KEYWORDS

database, option, priority, retrieve

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