Can't get Windows registry to work for resources

Can't get Windows registry to work for resources

[Steve Biederman]

I'm trying to set values in the Windows registry to do the same things that
one would do
in the .Xdefaults file in a X Window system.  To remove any oddities which
may be happenning
because of font or color names, for my test case I'm trying to set a
resource whose value is neither
a font or a color.  Just to test, I'm setting:
    HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/GNU/Emacs/Emacs.scrollBarWidth to the REG_SZ
value 100
Nothing happens.  What am I missing?

Re: Can't get Windows registry to work for resources

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Steve Biederman" <steve.biederman@synopsys.com>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 10:01:34 -0700
> 
> Just to test, I'm setting:
>     HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/GNU/Emacs/Emacs.scrollBarWidth to the REG_SZ
> value 100
> Nothing happens.  What am I missing?

I think this resource is specific to certain toolkits, not to X in
general.  The Windows build uses a native Windows toolkit that doesn't
look at this variable.

So not every resource will work on Windows, exactly like not every
resource will work with every toolkit on X.

Re: Can't get Windows registry to work for resources

[Steve Biederman]

Okay, then, how about Emacs*menubar and Emacs*popup fonts and colors?
Supported?


"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org> wrote in message
news:mailman.1925.1091036623.1960.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org...
> > From: "Steve Biederman" <steve.biederman@synopsys.com>
> > Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> > Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 10:01:34 -0700
> >
> > Just to test, I'm setting:
> >     HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/GNU/Emacs/Emacs.scrollBarWidth to the
REG_SZ
> > value 100
> > Nothing happens.  What am I missing?
>
> I think this resource is specific to certain toolkits, not to X in
> general.  The Windows build uses a native Windows toolkit that doesn't
> look at this variable.
>
> So not every resource will work on Windows, exactly like not every
> resource will work with every toolkit on X.
>
>

Re: Can't get Windows registry to work for resources

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Steve Biederman" <steve.biederman@synopsys.com>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 16:05:23 -0700
> 
> Okay, then, how about Emacs*menubar and Emacs*popup fonts and colors?
> Supported?

I don't know (anybody?).

You can always look in the sources, though.

Re: Can't get Windows registry to work for resources

[Jason Rumney]

"Steve Biederman" <steve.biederman@synopsys.com> writes:

> Okay, then, how about Emacs*menubar and Emacs*popup fonts and colors?
> Supported?

No. Menus and scrollbars are always displayed with the system default
fonts and colors on Windows.