XtAppCreateShell(3Xt) X11R5 XtAppCreateShell(3Xt)NAMEXtAppCreateShell - create top-level widget instance
SYNTAX
Widget XtAppCreateShell(application_name, application_class, wid‐
get_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.
args Specifies the argument list in which to set in the WM_COMMAND
property.
display Specifies the display from which to get the resources.
num_args Specifies the number of arguments in the argument list.
widget_class
Specifies the widget class that the application top-level
widget should be.
DESCRIPTION
The 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 wid‐
get resource names for this application. 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 has the WM_COMMAND property set for
session managers (see Chapter 4).
SEE ALSOXtCreateWidget(3Xt)
X Toolkit Intrinsics - C Language Interface
Xlib - C Language X Interface
XtAppCreateShell(3Xt)