DTACTIONDESCRIPTION(3)

💖 DtActionDescription — library call 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the DtActionDescription(library call) page — it's literally all about grabbing the cute little descriptive text for an action, and it's iconic. 🦋

🎀 NAME 🎀

DtActionDescription — obtain the descriptive text for a given action. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include &<Dt/Action.h>
char *DtActionDescription(
char *actionName);

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So DtActionDescription looks up the descriptive text tied to the actionName action and hands it back to you. The actionName argument is just the name of the action. periodt. 💖

If there are multiple actionName actions, the string you get back is the description of the most general one. And “most general” means the action with the lowest precedence, exactly like dtactionfile(4) explains under ``Action Selection''. iykyk. ✨

🎀 RETURN VALUE 🎀

Upon successful completion, DtActionDescription returns a newly allocated copy of the description string associated with the action. slay. Otherwise, it returns NULL. 😭

🌸 APPLICATION USAGE 🌸

DtActionDescription is useful for applications that wish to present information to the user about a particular action. It's giving “let me tell you about this action, bestie” energy. 🫶

The application should use XtFree(3) to free the description string returned by DtActionDescription. Don't forget, okay? fr fr. 💀

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

Dt/Action.h - DtAction(5), XtFree(3), dtactionfile(4), dtdtfile(4).

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✨ That's the whole DtActionDescription(library call) page, bestie — the footer here is just that page name, with no source/version or date line to quote, so this cute sign-off is where we leave it. 💖🫶