Re: Cannot run ddd after complied

[Tim Combs]

"app-defaults" or  application defaults are a way in the X-Windows
system to customize the system.  Without application defaults DDD
won't know how big to make windows, what fonts to use and so on.
When an X program starts up it opens up a file and reads in the default
values for the application.  In DDD that file is called "Ddd".  

Under X and Unix (Linux) systems, the application default files will
be placed in a directory and then you set an environment variable to
point to that directory and DDD will go out and read that file.

To avoid that DDD (and other X Windows program) will allow the user
to take that application defaults file and set those defaults as
constants inside of the program instead of looking for a file outside of DDD.
If you follow step 3 of DDD's help that was in the previous email then 
that will be done automagically for you.

For more information about the X windows system and how it works you
can look here: http://www.chemie.fu-berlin.de/chemnet/general/aboutx.html
and I am sure there are many other Web resources available.

Cheers!
Tim


On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 07:15:40AM +0800, LEE WAI KIT wrote:
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> On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Tim Combs wrote:
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> > Just what it says.  The Ddd program looks for an application defaults
> > file in the directories specified by an environment variable.  
> > 
> > Or as it says you can do #3--recompile it with the app-defaults built in.
> > 
> > Tim
> > address@hidden
> > 
> 
> 
> I don't understand what it means.
> What are the app-defaults? How to recompile with them?
> 
> Thanks and regards,
> 
> kit
> 
> 
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