The Resource Files - Barco TransForm A series User Manual

4.6.6 The resource files

You can adjust the behavior of an X client by providing options on the command line when you call it. These
options specify the values of certain attributes of clients called resources. In addition, you can place specifications
that establish defaults for resources in resource files.
The concept of resource files is complex and therefore only the basics necessary for fundamental understanding
can be treated here.
Further documentation
A detailed and complete description can be found in:
•
X Window System User's Guide - Volume 3
Valerie Quercia, Tim O'Reilly
O'Reilly & Associates, January 1993
ISBN: 1565920155
Syntax
The resource syntax knows loose binding and tight binding:
name*variable:value
name.variable:value
The loose binding:
xvideo*title:my video
determines both the title of the control panel and the title of the canvas panel. Whereas the tight binding:
xvideo.ctrl.title:my xvideo control panel
xvideo.canvyas.title:my xvideo canvas panel
determines the titles of control and canvas panel separately.
-name option
The xforms toolkit option -name allows to control which resource is evaluated when starting xvideo. So, if
two different resources for foo and for dummy are defined:
xvideo-foo.ctrl.title:foo control panel
xvideo-foo.canvas.title:foo control panel
xvideo-dummy.ctrl.title: dummy control panel
xvideo-dummy.canvas.title: dummy control panel
xvideo can be started two times with different settings:
eos:/root # xvideo -name xvideo-foo
eos:/root # xvideo -name xvideo-dummy
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loose binding
tight binding
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