---
name: "SoXtResource"
section: "3iv"
platform: "linux"
package: "inventor-doc"
version: "2.1.6+ds-2"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/SoXtResource"
---

# SoXtResource(3iv)

used to retrieve X resources for SoXtComponents and widgets

## NAME

SoXtResource — used to retrieve X resources for SoXtComponents and widgets

## INHERITS FROM

SoXtResource

## SYNOPSIS

**#include \<Inventor/Xt/SoXtResource.h\>**

Methods from class SoXtResource:

	**SoXtResource(Widget w)**\
 	**~SoXtResource()**\
 **SbBool**	**getResource(char \*resName, char \*resClass, SbColor &c)**\
 **SbBool**	**getResource(char \*resName, char \*resClass, short &i)**\
 **SbBool**	**getResource(char \*resName, char \*resClass, unsigned short &u)**\
 **SbBool**	**getResource(char \*resName, char \*resClass, char \*&s)**\
 **SbBool**	**getResource(char \*resName, char \*resClass, SbBool &b)**\
 **SbBool**	**getResource(char \*resName, char \*resClass, float &f)**

## DESCRIPTION

**This class provides an easy to use interface for retrieving X resource values for widgets and components. Rather than use standard Xt calls to traverse up a widget hierarchy, this class performs its own** **traversal so that it may provide special care for widgets which are Inventor components. For instance, the Inventor Material Editor top level widget is a Motif form widget. Its class name is thus XmForm. SoXtResource** knows that the editor is an Inventor component, though, so it uses the class name provided by the editor (in this case "SoXtMaterialEditor") when looking up resource values.

EXAMPLE:

```
SoXtResource xr( materialEditor->getWidget() );
xr.getResource("tile1Color", "Tile1Color", color);
xr.getResource("updateFrequency", "UpdateFrequency", freq);
```

## METHODS

	**SoXtResource(Widget w)**\
 	**~SoXtResource()**\
 Constructor and destructor. The constructor takes the widget for which it will retrieve resource values.

**SbBool**	**getResource(char \*resName, char \*resClass, SbColor &c)**\
 **SbBool**	**getResource(char \*resName, char \*resClass, short &i)**\
 **SbBool**	**getResource(char \*resName, char \*resClass, unsigned short &u)**\
 **SbBool**	**getResource(char \*resName, char \*resClass, char \*&s)**\
 **SbBool**	**getResource(char \*resName, char \*resClass, SbBool &b)**\
 **SbBool**	**getResource(char \*resName, char \*resClass, float &f)**\
 This returns the X resource value for the specified resource name and class. There is no need to specify the widget hierarchy; this is automatically computed in the constructor.

## NOTES

Components will typically look up their own resources during **buildWidget()**. In order for a component to have its Inventor class name recognized by **SoXtResource**, it must call **SoXtComponent::registerWidget()** in its **buildWidget()** method. (This is done in every Inventor component.)

## SEE ALSO

**X Resources (Xrm), X Intrinsics (Xt), SoXt, SoXtComponent**