>>>>> "Paul" == Paul D Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Paul> Well... first, I don't understand why the name of the app should
Paul> have anything to do with parsing the command-line options.
Paul> Sure, the name of the app is always used as the instance name
Paul> for X resources, but what does that have to do with the command
Paul> line?

Not sure. I'll have to re-read the xforms manual...

Paul> Obviously, for xforms perhaps it does (weird!).  At the very
Paul> least, if it's trying to combing the command-line handling with
Paul> the "normal" resource handling somehow, it should use the
Paul> resource class name "LyX", not the instance name.

Maybe the error is on our side. I'll check that.

jl> You found it: xforms does not use Xt. I guess this means that
jl> handling resources a la Xt would be too difficult.

Paul> Bleah.  When did you say you were moving to a new toolkit ? :)

Currently, the toolkits considered are Qt, Gtk+, fltk and curses. None
of these support Xt :-|

Paul> Xforms may be simple to develop with, but it sure has some
Paul> bletcherous aspects (the menu handling I find particularly
Paul> annoying :-/).

Horrible, isn't it?

JMarc

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