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From: awang@EAST.SUN.COM (Angus Wang - Sun BOS Software)
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Date: 10 Aug 89 13:03:32 GMT
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I am interested in developing some applications to make application 
development easier in X, and was wondering if you had any ideas on a 
problem/situation I am pondering.

What I am interested in is being able to search a predefined list (one
associated with each possible widget set) of public *.h files.  Since
these files should be the only ones that have information about application
set-able attributes (height, width, font, etc...).  These files should
also contain the default values for the attributes since the appl. prog.
does not have to specify all values.  Since all widgets have to follow
the X Intrinsics, can you see any situation where these ideas will
break down?  This is assuming that the intrinsics are followed.
Basically I want to be able to determine all the application set-able fields
and default values for them at run time rather than maintain a data base
of widgets in a widget set, attributes per widget, range of values per
attribute, and default values.

Thanks for any info/help.

Angus