Creating a Render Table in a Resource File

Renditions and render tables should be specified in resource files for a properly internationalized application. When the render tables are specified in a file, the program binaries are made independent of the particular needs of a given locale, and can be easily customized to local needs.

Render tables are specified in resource files with the following syntax: resource_spec:[tag[,tag]*]

where tag is some string suitable for the XmNtag resource of a rendition.

This line creates an initial render table containing one or more renditions as specified. The renditions are attached to the specified tags:

resource_spec[*|.] rendition[*|.]resource_name:value

The following example illustrates the CTL resources related to XmRendition that can be set using resource files. The fontType must be set to FONT_IS_XOC for the layout object to take effect. The layoutModifier specified using @ls is passed on to the layout object by the rendition object.

For a complete list of resources that can be set on the layout object using layoutModifier, see CAE Specification: Portable Layout Services: Context-dependent and Directional Text, The Open Group: Feb 1997; ISBN 1-85912-142-X; document number C616.

Example 6–3 Creating a Render Table in an Application

Before creating a render table, an application program must first have created at least one of the renditions that is part of the table. The XmRenderTableAddRenditions() function, as its name implies, is also used to augment a render table with new renditions. To create a new render table, call the XmRenderTableAddRenditions() function with a NULL argument in place of an existing render table.

The following code creates a render table using a rendition created with XmNfontType set to XmFONT_IS_XOC.

int n;
Arg args[10];
Widget w;
XmString labelString;
XmRendition rendition;
XmStringTag renditionTag;
XmRenderTable renderTable;
      /* alef lam baa noon taa - iso8859-6 */
labelString = XmStringGenerate("\307\344\310\346\312\", NULL
			                           XmCHARSET_TEXT, "ArabicShaped");
w = XtVaCreateManagedWidget("a label", xmLabelWidgetClass, parent,
                            XmNlabelString, labelString,
		                         XmNlabelType, XmSTRING,
                            NULL);
n = 0;
XtSetArg(args[n], XmNfontName, "-*-*-medium-r-normal-*-24-*-*-*-*-*-*-*");
     n++;
XtSetArg(args[n], XmNfontType, XmFONT_IS_XOC); n++;
XtSetArg(args[n], XmNlayoutAttrObject, "ar"); n++;
XtSetArg(args[n], XmNlayoutModifier, 
          "@ls numerals=nominal:contextual, shapecharset=iso8859-6"); n++;
renditionTag = (XmStringTag) "ArabicShaped";
rendition = XmRenditionCreate(w, renditionTag, args, n);
renderTable = 
    XmRenderTableAddRenditions(NULL, &rendition, 1, XmREPLACE);
XtVaSetValues(w, XmNrenderTable, renderTable, NULL);