If the application does not understand the editres protocol editres will inform you of this fact in the message area after a few seconds delay. Once you have a widget tree you may now select any of the other menu options. The effect of each of these is described below. Widget Tree Allows the user to click on any application that speaks the editres protocol and receive its widget tree. Refresh Current Widget Tree Editres only knows about the widgets that exist at the present time.
Many applications create and destroy widgets on the fly.
Selecting this menu item will cause editres to ask the application to resend its widget tree, thus updating its information to the new state of the application. For example, xman only creates the widgets for its topbox when it starts up. None of the widgets for the manual page window are created until the user actually clicks on the Manual Page button. If you retrieved xman's widget tree before the the manual page is active, you may wish to refresh the widget tree after the manual page has been displayed. This will allow you to also edit the manual page's resources.