XtResolvePathname(3Xt) XT FUNCTIONS XtResolvePathname(3Xt)
NAME
XtResolvePathname - search for a file using standard substi-
tution
SYNTAX
String XtResolvePathname(Display *display, String type,
String filename, String suffix, String path, Substitu-
tion substitutions, Cardinal num_substitutions,
XtFilePredicate predicate);
ARGUMENTS
display Specifies the display to use to find the
language for language substitutions.
type
filename
suffix Specify values to substitute into the path.
path Specifies the list of file specifications, or
NULL.
substitutions
Specifies a list of additional substitutions to
make into the path, or NULL.
num_substitutions
Specifies the number of entries in substitu-
tions.
predicate Specifies a procedure called to judge each
potential file name, or NULL.
DESCRIPTION
The substitutions specified by XtResolvePathname are deter-
mined from the value of the language string retrieved by
XtDisplayInitialize for the specified display. To set the
language for all applications specify ``*xnlLanguage: lang''
in the resource database. The format and content of the
language string are implementation-defined. One suggested
syntax is to compose the language string of three parts; a
``language part'', a ``territory part'' and a ``codeset
part''. The manner in which this composition is accom-
plished is implementation-defined and the Intrinsics make no
interpretation of the parts other than to use them in sub-
stitutions as described below.
XtResolvePathname calls XtFindFile with the following sub-
stitutions in addition to any passed by the caller and
returns the value returned by XtFindFile:
%N The value of the filename parameter, or the
application's class name if filename is NULL.
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XtResolvePathname(3Xt) XT FUNCTIONS XtResolvePathname(3Xt)
%T The value of the type parameter.
%S The value of the suffix parameter.
%L The language string associated with the specified
display.
%l The language part of the display's language string.
%t The territory part of the display's language string.
%c The codeset part of the display's language string.
%C The customization string retrieved from the resource
database associated with display.
%D The value of the implementation-specific default path.
If a path is passed to XtResolvePathname, it will be passed
along to XtFindFile. If the path argument is NULL, the value
of the XFILESEARCHPATH environment variable will be passed
to XtFindFile. If XFILESEARCHPATH is not defined, an
implementation-specific default path will be used which con-
tains at least 6 entries. These entries must contain the
following substitutions:
1. %C, %N, %S, %T, %L or%C, %N, %S, %T, %l, %t, %c
2. %C, %N, %S, %T, %l
3. %C, %N, %S, %T
4. %N, %S, %T, %L or %N, %S, %T, %l, %t, %c
5. %N, %S, %T, %l
6. %N, %S, %T
The order of these six entries within the path must be as
given above. The order and use of substitutions within a
given entry is implementation dependent. If the path begins
with a colon, it will be preceded by %N%S. If the path
includes two adjacent colons, %N%S will be inserted between
them.
The type parameter is intended to be a category of files,
usually being translated into a directory in the pathname.
Possible values might include ``app-defaults'', ``help'',
and ``bitmap''.
The suffix parameter is intended to be appended to the file
name. Possible values might include ``.txt'', ``.dat'', and
``.bm''.
A suggested value for the default path on POSIX-based sys-
tems is
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XtResolvePathname(3Xt) XT FUNCTIONS XtResolvePathname(3Xt)
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/%L/%T/%N%C%S:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/%l/%T/%N%C%S:\
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/%T/%N%C%S:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/%L/%T/%N%S:\
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/%l/%T/%N%S:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/%T/%N%S
Using this example, if the user has specified a language, it
will be used as a subdirectory of /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 that
will be searched for other files. If the desired file is
not found there, the lookup will be tried again using just
the language part of the specification. If the file is not
there, it will be looked for in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11. The
type parameter is used as a subdirectory of the language
directory or of /usr/X11R6/lib/X11, and suffix is appended
to the file name.
The %D substitution allows the addition of path elements to
the implementation-specific default path, typically to allow
additional directories to be searched without preventing
resources in the system directories from being found. For
example, a user installing resource files under a directory
called ``ourdir'' might set XFILESEARCHPATH to
%D:ourdir/%T/%N%C:ourdir/%T/%N
The customization string is obtained by querying the
resource database currently associated with the display (the
database returned by XrmGetDatabase) for the resource
application_name.customization, class
application_class.Customization where application_name and
application_class are the values returned by XtGetApplica-
tionNameAndClass. If no value is specified in the database,
the empty string is used.
It is the responsibility of the caller to free the returned
string using XtFree when it is no longer needed.
SEE ALSO
X Toolkit Intrinsics - C Language Interface
Xlib - C Language X Interface
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