Name

XtAppCreateShell − create top-level widget instance

Syntax

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

Arguments

application_class
Specifies the class name of this application.

application_name
Specifies the name of the application instance.

argsSpecifies the argument list in which to set in the WM_COMMAND property. 

displaySpecifies the display from which to get the resources. 

num_argsSpecifies the number of arguments in the argument list. 

widget_classSpecifies the widget class that the application top-level widget should be. 

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(3Xt)
X Window System Toolkit: The Complete Programmer’s Guide and Specification, Paul J. Asente and Ralph Swick
X Window System: The Complete Reference, Second Edition, Robert W. Scheifler and James Gettys