NAME

       XtAppCreateShell, XtVaAppCreateShell - create top-level widget instance

SYNTAX

       #include <X11/Intrinsic.h>

       Widget XtAppCreateShell(const char *application_name, const char *application_class,
              WidgetClass widget_class, Display *display, ArgList args, Cardinal num_args);

       Widget XtVaAppCreateShell(const char * application_name, const char * application_class,
              WidgetClass widget_class, Display *display, ...);

ARGUMENTS

       application_name
                 Specifies the name of the application instance.

       application_class
                 Specifies the class name of this application, which usually is the generic name
                 for all instances of this application.

       widget_class
                 Specifies the widget class that the application top-level widget should be.

       display   Specifies the display from which to get the resources.

       args      Specifies the argument list from which to get the resources.

       num_args  Specifies the number of arguments in the argument list.

       ...       Specifies the variable argument list from which to get the resources.

DESCRIPTION

       The XtAppCreateShell function saves the specified application name and application class
       for qualifying all widget resource specifiers.  The application name and application class
       are used as the left-most components in all widget resource names for this application.
       XtAppCreateShell should be used to create a new logical application within a program or to
       create a shell on another display.  In the first case, it allows the specification of a
       new root in the resource hierarchy.  In the second case, it uses the resource database
       associated with the other display.

       Note that the widget returned by XtAppCreateShell has the WM_COMMAND property set for
       session managers (see Chapter 4).

SEE ALSO

       XtCreateWidget(3)
       X Toolkit Intrinsics - C Language Interface
       Xlib - C Language X Interface