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@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
.\" $Xorg: appF,v 1.3 2000/08/17 19:42:49 cpqbld Exp $
.\" Copyright \(co 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1991, 1994
.\" X Consortium
-.\"
+.\"
.\" Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
.\" a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
.\" "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
@@ -9,10 +9,10 @@
.\" distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
.\" permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
.\" the following conditions:
-.\"
+.\"
.\" The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included
.\" in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
-.\"
+.\"
.\" THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS
.\" OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
.\" MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
@@ -20,15 +20,15 @@
.\" OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE,
.\" ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR
.\" OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
-.\"
+.\"
.\" Except as contained in this notice, the name of the X Consortium shall
.\" not be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, use or
.\" other dealings in this Software without prior written authorization
.\" from the X Consortium.
-.\"
+.\"
.\" Copyright \(co 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1991, 1994
.\" Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard, Massachusetts.
-.\"
+.\"
.\" Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute this documentation for any
.\" purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright
.\" notice appears in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this
@@ -53,31 +53,31 @@
.XE
Setting and changing resources in X applications can be difficult for
both the application programmer and the end user. \fBResource
-Configuration Management (RCM)\fP addresses this problem by changing
-the \fBX Intrinsics\fP to immediately modify a resource for a
-specified widget and each child widget in the hierarchy.
-In this context, immediate means: no sourcing of a resource
-file is required; the application does not need to be restarted for the
+Configuration Management (RCM)\fP addresses this problem by changing
+the \fBX Intrinsics\fP to immediately modify a resource for a
+specified widget and each child widget in the hierarchy.
+In this context, immediate means: no sourcing of a resource
+file is required; the application does not need to be restarted for the
new resource values to take effect; and the change
occurs immediately.
.LP
-The main difference between \fBRCM\fP and the \fBEditres\fP
+The main difference between \fBRCM\fP and the \fBEditres\fP
protocol is that the \fBRCM\fP
customizing hooks reside in the \fBIntrinsics\fP and thus are linked with
other toolkits such as Motif and the Athena widgets. However, the
-\fBEditRes\fP protocol requires the application to link with the
+\fBEditRes\fP protocol requires the application to link with the
\fBEditRes\fP
routines in the Xmu library and Xmu is not used by all applications that
-use Motif. Also, the \fBEditRes\fP protocol uses ClientMessage,
+use Motif. Also, the \fBEditRes\fP protocol uses ClientMessage,
whereas the
\fBRCM\fP \fBIntrinsics\fP hooks use \fBPropertyNotify\fP events.
.LP
-X Properties and the \fBPropertyNotify\fP events are used
+X Properties and the \fBPropertyNotify\fP events are used
to implement \fBRCM\fP and
allow on-the-fly resource customization. When the X Toolkit is
-initialized, two atoms are interned with the strings
+initialized, two atoms are interned with the strings
\fICustom Init\fP and
-\fICustom Data\fP. Both
+\fICustom Data\fP. Both
.PN _XtCreatePopupShell
and
.PN _XtAppCreateShell
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ The resource value
When setting the application's resource, the event handler calls
functions to walk the application's widget tree, determining which
widgets are affected by the resource string, and then applying the value
-with
+with
.PN XtSetValues.
As the widget tree is recursively descended, at
each level in the widget tree a resource part is tested for a match.