Conference csc32::consolemanager

137.0. "uid-file selection method" by JRDV04::YAMAGATA () Fri Nov 26 1993 07:31

Is uid-file selection method of CM queer,isn't it?

CM has cmeditm_en_US.uid and cmeditm_en_GB.uid in /usr/lib/X11/uid .
If user's locale is en_US, CM selects cmeditm_en_US.uid .
When the locale is en_GB, it selects cmeditm_en_GB.uid .
Users of other countries, such as Japan, are always warned that
MRM can't find a uid of his locale (ex. cmeditm_ja_JP.uid )
and it will use cmeditm_en_US.uid instead.

But according to P21-2 of OSF/Motif Programmer's Guide Revison 1.1 ,
MRM searches the following pathnames

/usr/lib/X11/%L/uid/%N/%U
/usr/lib/X11/%l/uid/%N/%U
/usr/lib/X11/uid/%N/%U
/usr/lib/X11/%L/uid/%U
/usr/lib/X11/%l/uid/%U
/usr/lib/X11/uid/%U
/usr/include/X11/uid/%U

%U   The uid file name
%N   The class name of the application
%L   The value of the xnlLanuage resource or the LANG evironment variables.
%l   The language component of the xnlLanguage resource or the LANG 
        envrionment variable

Then,why don't you use this rule?
For example,change the names and locations of the files as followers.

/usr/lib/X11/uid/cmeditm_en_US.uid -> /usr/lib/X11/uid/cmeditm.uid
/usr/lib/X11/uid/cmeditm_en_GB.uid -> /usr/lib/X11/en_GB/uid/cmeditm.uid

In this case,
if the xnlLanguage is en_GB, MRM will use /usr/lib/X11/en_GB/uid/cmeditm.uid.
And if the locale isn't en_GB, MRM will select /usr/lib/X11/uid/cmeditm.uid 
automatically.

Many applications (ex. DECwrite,PHIGS,GKS) conform to this rule.

  Thanks for the input, we (I) didnt do it this way
  because I wasnt sure how to do it correctly!

  Now that I know, I will modify our code so that it
  works the correct way.

  You will see this change in the EFT update as its
  too late for the EFT release now.

Cheers,
Phil

Thank you for your quick response.

-- Tatsuki Yamagata (ISE/DEC-Japan)