editres

Short:        X11R6 Resource Editor (updated)
Author:       X consortium
Uploader:     mlemos ua pt (Manuel Lemos)
Type:         misc/x11
Architecture: m68k-amigaos

This is the X11 R6 resource editor compiled for Holger Kruse's AmiWin Amiga
X Windows server.  It allows the users to interactively view and change
resource values of running X application that supports the editres
protocol.

The original editres protocol program of X11 release 6.0 was not complete.
Peter Derr wrote a patch to complete the part of the protocol that enables
an application to retrieve the resource values in text string format that
may be usable directly in resource files.

To get the current value of a resource of a widget, you must selected the
respective resource in the resource box using the proper mouse button.
Button 1 (left button) is used to select the resource without changing the
contents of the text entry box.

Originally button 2 (middle button) was used to retrieve the resource value
into the text entry box, but I changed that in the provided application
defaults file to button 3 (right button) as most of the Amiga users only
have 2 button mice.

The GetValues part of editres protocol will only work with applications
that use this patched version the editres protocol code.  Otherwise it will
only retrieve for resource value the "NoValue" string.  So, applications
must be linked with this new code.

Since AmiWin local applications use shared libraries that only Holger has
the source code, only him is able to provide patched versions of the
libraries.

I am providing a link library that uses the patched code to add the
necessary changes at runtime.  All it does is to change the vendor Shell
class initialization code to insert the new editres protocol message event
handler.

It also adds new *ToString resource converters necessary to convert
resource values to text string format.  Only the most used *ToString
converters were added.  If it shows that editres perform default from
integer conversions is because the required *ToString converters are not
available.

The source code for editres and the editres link library are provided for
your convinience.  Feel free to recompile the link library with the options
that you may find appropriate for you programs.

In order to force the library to get linked with any SAS C compiled
program, I defined the external __stack variable that is used by SAS to
define the minimum stack size that a program must start with.

This is also a convinience for X programs as they spend considerable
ammounts of stack space.  40000 bytes is often reasonable value for the
stack.  Feel free to change this value according to you convinience.

Manuel Lemos
31.08.1996