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NAME

       editres - a dynamic resource editor for X Toolkit applications

SYNTAX

       editres [ -toolkitoption ... ]

OPTIONS

       Editres  accepts all of the standard X Toolkit command line options (see X(7)).  The order
       of the command line options is not important.

DESCRIPTION

       Editres is a tool that allows users and application developers to  view  the  full  widget
       hierarchy  of  any  X  Toolkit application that speaks the Editres protocol.  In addition,
       editres will help the user construct resource specifications, allow the user to apply  the
       resource to the application and view the results dynamically.  Once the user is happy with
       a resource specification editres will append the resource string to the user's X Resources
       file.

USING EDITRES

       Editres provides a window consisting of the following four areas:

       Menu Bar                 A  set  of  popup  menus  that allow you full access to editres's
                                features.

       Panner                   The panner allows a more intuitive way to scroll the  application
                                tree display.

       Message Area             Displays  information  to  the user about the action that editres
                                expects of her.

       Application Widget Tree  This area will be used  to  display  the  selected  application's
                                widget tree.

       To  begin  an  editres session select the Get Widget Tree menu item from the command menu.
       This will change the pointer cursor to cross hair.  You should now select the  application
       you  wish  look at by clicking on any of its windows.  If this application understands the
       editres protocol then editres will display the  application's  widget  tree  in  its  tree
       window.   If  the application does not understand the editres protocol editres will inform
       you of this fact in the message area after a few seconds delay.

       Once you have a widget tree you may now select any of the other menu options.  The  effect
       of each of these is described below.

COMMANDS

       Get Widget Tree
               Allows  the  user to click on any application that speaks the editres protocol and
               receive its widget tree.

       Refresh Current Widget Tree
               Editres only knows about the  widgets  that  exist  at  the  present  time.   Many
               applications create and destroy widgets on the fly.  Selecting this menu item will
               cause editres to ask the application to resend its widget tree, thus updating  its
               information to the new state of the application.

               For example, xman only creates the widgets for its topbox when it starts up.  None
               of the widgets for the manual page window are  created  until  the  user  actually
               clicks  on the Manual Page button.  If you retrieved xman's widget tree before the
               the manual page is active, you may wish to  refresh  the  widget  tree  after  the
               manual  page  has  been  displayed.   This  will allow you to also edit the manual
               page's resources.

       Dump Widget Tree to a File
               For documenting applications it is often useful to be  able  to  dump  the  entire
               application  widget  tree to an ASCII file.  This file can then be included in the
               manual page.  When this menu item is selected a popup dialog is  activated.   Type
               the  name  of the file in this dialog, and either select okay, or type a carriage-
               return.  Editres will now dump the widget tree to this file.  To cancel  the  file
               dialog, select the cancel button.

       Show Resource Box
               This command will popup a resource box for the current application.  This resource
               box (described in detail below) will allow the user to see exactly which resources
               can  be  set for the widget that is currently selected in the widget tree display.
               Only one widget may be currently  selected;  if  greater  or  fewer  are  selected
               editres  will  refuse  to  pop up the resource box and put an error message in the
               Message Area.

       Set Resource
               This command will popup a simple dialog box for setting an arbitrary  resource  on
               all  selected  widgets.  You must type in the resource name, as well as the value.
               You can use the Tab key to switch between the resource  name  field  the  resource
               value field.

       Quit    Exits editres.

TREE COMMANDS

       The  Tree  menu  contains  several  commands  that allow operations to be performed on the
       widget tree.

       Select Widget in Client
              This menu item allows you to select any widget in  the  application;  editres  will
              then  highlight  the corresponding element the widget tree display.  Once this menu
              item is selected the pointer cursor will again turn to a crosshair,  and  you  must
              click  any  pointer  button  in  the widget you wish to have displayed.  Since some
              widgets are fully obscured by their children, it is not possible to  get  to  every
              widget  this  way,  but  this  mechanism does give very useful feedback between the
              elements in the widget tree and those in the actual application.

       Select All

       Unselect All

       Invert All
              These functions allow the user to select, unselect, or invert all  widgets  in  the
              widget tree.

       Select Children

       Select Parents
              These  functions  select  the immediate parent or children of each of the currently
              selected widgets.

       Select Descendants

       Select Ancestors
              These functions select all parents or children of each of  the  currently  selected
              widgets.  This is a recursive search.

       Show Widget Names

       Show Class Names

       Show Widget IDs

       Show Widget Windows
              When  the  tree widget is initially displayed the labels of each widget in the tree
              correspond to the widget names.  These  functions  will  cause  the  label  of  all
              widgets in the tree to be changed to show the class name, IDs, or window associated
              with each widget in the application.  The widget IDs, and windows are shown as  hex
              numbers.

       In addition there are keyboard accelerators for each of the Tree operations.  If the input
       focus is over an individual widget in the tree, then that operation will only effect  that
       widget.  If the input focus is in the Tree background it will have exactly the same effect
       as the corresponding menu item.

       The translation entries shown may be applied to any widget in the  application.   If  that
       widget  is  a child of the Tree widget, then it will only affect that widget, otherwise it
       will have the same effect as the commands in the tree menu.

       Flash Active Widgets
              This command is the inverse of the Select Widget in Client command,  it  will  show
              the user each widget that is currently selected in the widget tree, by flashing the
              corresponding widget in the application numFlashes (three by default) times in  the
              flashColor.

              Key     Option                     Translation Entry
              -
              space   Unselect                   Select(nothing)
              w       Select                     Select(widget)
              s       Select                     Select(all)
              i       Invert                     Select(invert)
              c       Select Children            Select(children)
              d       Select Descendants         Select(descendants)
              p       Select Parent              Select(parent)
              a       Select Ancestors           Select(ancestors)
              N       Show Widget Names          Relabel(name)
              C       Show Class Names           Relabel(class)
              I       Show Widget IDs            Relabel(id)
              W       Show Widget Windows        Relabel(window)
              T       Toggle Widget/Class Name   Relabel(toggle)

              Clicking  button  1  on  a widget adds it to the set of selected widgets.  Clicking
              button 2 on a widget deselects all other widgets and then selects just that widget.
              Clicking  button 3 on a widget toggles its label between the widget's instance name
              the widget's class name.

USING THE RESOURCE BOX

       The resource box contains five different areas.  Each of the areas, as they appear on  the
       screen, from top to bottom will be discussed.

       The Resource Line
              This area at the top of the resource box shows the current resource name exactly as
              it would appear if you were to save it to a file or apply it.

       The Widget Names and Classes
              This area allows you to select exactly which widgets this resource will  apply  to.
              The  area  contains  four lines, the first contains the name of the selected widget
              and all its ancestors, and the more restrictive dot (.) separator.  The second line
              contains  less  specific  the  Class  names  of  each  widget, and well as the less
              restrictive star (*) separator.  The third line contains a set of  special  buttons
              called  Any  Widget which will generalize this level to match any widget.  The last
              line contains a set of special buttons called Any Widget Chain which will turn  the
              single level into something that matches zero or more levels.

              The  initial  state  of this area is the most restrictive, using the resource names
              and the dot separator.  By selecting the other buttons in this area  you  can  ease
              the  restrictions  to  allow more and more widgets to match the specification.  The
              extreme case is to select all the Any Widget Chain buttons, which will match  every
              widget  in the application.   As you select different buttons the tree display will
              update to show you exactly which widgets will be effected by the  current  resource
              specification.

       Normal and Constraint Resources
              The  next  area allows you to select the name of the normal or constraint resources
              you wish to set.  Some widgets may not have constraint resources, so that area will
              not appear.

       Resource Value
              This  next  area  allows  you  to  enter  the resource value.  This value should be
              entered exactly as you would type a line into your resource file.  Thus  it  should
              contain  no  unescaped  new-lines.  There are a few special character sequences for
              this file:

              \n - This will be replaced with a newline.

              \### - Where # is any octal digit.  This will be replaced with a single  byte  that
              contains  this  sequence  interpreted  as  an  octal  number.  For example, a value
              containing a NULL byte can be stored by specifying \000.

              \<new-line> - This will compress to nothing.

              \\ - This will compress to a single backslash.

       Command Area
              This area contains several command buttons, described in this section.

       Set Save File
              This button allows the user to modify file that the resources  will  be  saved  to.
              This  button  will bring up a dialog box that will ask you for a filename; once the
              filename has been entered, either hit carriage-return or click on the okay  button.
              To pop down the dialog box without changing the save file, click the cancel button.

       Save   This button will append the resource line described above to the end of the current
              save file.  If no save file has been set the Set  Save  File  dialog  box  will  be
              popped up to prompt the user for a filename.

       Apply  This  button  attempts  to perform a XtSetValues call on all widgets that match the
              resource line described above.  The value specified  is  applied  directly  to  all
              matching  widgets.   This  behavior  is  an  attempt  to give a dynamic feel to the
              resource editor.  Since this feature allows users to put an application  in  states
              it  may  not  be  willing  to  handle,  a  hook has been provided to allow specific
              applications to block these  SetValues  requests  (see  Blocking  Editres  Requests
              below).

              Unfortunately due to design constraints imposed on the widgets by the X Toolkit and
              the Resource Manager, trying to coerce an inherently  static  system  into  dynamic
              behavior  can  cause strange results.  There is no guarantee that the results of an
              apply will be the same as what will happen when you save the value and restart  the
              application.   This  functionality  is provided to try to give you a rough feel for
              what your changes will accomplish, and the results obtained  should  be  considered
              suspect at best.  Having said that, this is one of the neatest features of editres,
              and I strongly suggest that you play with it, and see what it can do.

       Save and Apply
              This button combines the Save and Apply actions described above into one button.

       Popdown Resource Box
              This button will remove the resource box from the display.

BLOCKING EDITRES REQUESTS

       The editres protocol has  been  built  into  the  Athena  Widget  set.   This  allows  all
       applications  that  are  linked  against  Xaw  to be able to speak to the resource editor.
       While this provides great flexibility, and is a  useful  tool,  it  can  quite  easily  be
       abused.   It  is  therefore  possible  for  any Xaw application to specify a value for the
       editresBlock resource described below, to keep editres from  divulging  information  about
       its internals, or to disable the SetValues part of the protocol.

       editresBlock (Class EditresBlock)
               Specifies  which type of blocking this application wishes to impose on the editres
               protocol.

       The accepted values are:

       all            Block all requests.

       setValues      Block all SetValues requests.  As this is the  only  editres  request  that
                      actually  modifies  the  application,  this  is  in effect stating that the
                      application is read-only.

       none           Allow all editres requests.

       Remember that these resources are set on any Xaw application,  not  editres.   They  allow
       individual  applications  to  keep  all  or  some  of the requests editres makes from ever
       succeeding.  Of course, editres is also an Xaw application, so it may also be  viewed  and
       modified  by  editres (rather recursive, I know), these commands can be blocked by setting
       the editresBlock resource on editres itself.

RESOURCES

       For editres the available application resources are:

       numFlashes (Class NumFlashes)
               Specifies the number of times the widgets in the application will be flashed  when
               the Show Active Widgets command in invoked.

       flashTime (Class FlashTime)
               Amount of time between the flashes described above.

       flashColor (Class flashColor)
               Specifies  the  color used to flash application widgets.  A bright color should be
               used that will immediately draw your attention to the area being flashed, such  as
               red or yellow.

       saveResourcesFile (Class SaveResourcesFile)
               This  is  the  file  the  resource  line  will  be  append to when the Save button
               activated in the resource box.

WIDGETS

       In order to specify resources, it is useful to know the hierarchy  of  the  widgets  which
       compose  editres.   In  the  notation below, indentation indicates hierarchical structure.
       The widget class name is given first, followed by the widget instance name.

       Editres  editres
            Paned  paned
                                       Box  box
                                                             MenuButton  commands
                                                             SimpleMenu  menu
                                                             SmeBSB  sendTree
                                                             SmeBSB  refreshTree
                                                             SmeBSB  dumpTreeToFile
                                                             SmeLine  line
                                                             SmeBSB  getResourceList
                                                             SmeLine  line
                                                             SmeBSB  quit
                                                             MenuButton  treeCommands
                                                             SimpleMenu  menu
                                                             SmeBSB  showClientWidget
                                                             SmeBSB  selectAll
                                                             SmeBSB  unselectAll
                                                             SmeBSB  invertAll
                                                             SmeLine  line
                                                             SmeBSB  selectChildren
                                                             SmeBSB  selectParent
                                                             SmeBSB  selectDescendants
                                                             SmeBSB  selectAncestors
                                                             SmeLine  line
                                                             SmeBSB  showWidgetNames
                                                             SmeBSB  showClassNames
                                                             SmeBSB  showWidgetIDs
                                                             SmeBSB  showWidgetWindows
                                                             SmeLine  line
                                                             SmeBSB  flashActiveWidgets
                                       Paned  hPane
                                                             Panner  panner
                                                             Label  userMessage
                                                             Grip  grip
                                       Porthole  porthole
                                                             Tree  tree
                                                             Toggle  <name of widget in application>
                                                             .
                                                             .
                                                             .
                                                             TransientShell  resourceBox
                                                             Paned  pane
                                                             Label  resourceLabel
                                                             Form  namesAndClasses
                                                             Toggle  dot
                                                             Toggle  star
                                                             Toggle  any
                                                             Toggle  name
                                                             Toggle  class
                                                                  .
                                                                  .
                                                                  .
                                                             Label  namesLabel
                                                             List  namesList
                                                             Label  constraintLabel
                                                             List  constraintList
                                                             Form  valueForm
                                                             Label  valueLabel
                                                             Text  valueText
                                                             Box  commandBox
                                                             Command  setFile
                                                             Command  save
                                                             Command  apply
                                                             Command  saveAndApply
                                                             Command  cancel
                                                             Grip  grip
                                       Grip  grip

ENVIRONMENT

       DISPLAY to get the default host and display number.

       XENVIRONMENT
               to get the name of a resource file that overrides the global resources  stored  in
               the RESOURCE_MANAGER property.

FILES

       /etc/X11/app-defaults/Editres
              specifies required resources

SEE ALSO

       X(7), xrdb(1), Athena Widget Set

RESTRICTIONS

       This is a prototype, there are lots of nifty features I would love to add, but I hope this
       will give you some ideas about what a resource editor can do.

AUTHOR

       Chris D. Peterson, formerly MIT X Consortium