DTCREATETERM(3)

💅 DTCREATETERM(3) 💅

okay bestie, welcome to the DtCreateTerm(library call) page — manual name folded right in, no boring copied header line, we move ✨ This one is all about creating a DtTerm widget, and it's giving vintage terminal emulator realness 🖥️💖

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🎀 NAME 🎀

DtCreateTerm — create a DtTerm widget 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

       #include &<Dt/Term.h>
       Widget DtCreateTerm(
       Widget parent,
       String name,
       ArgList arglist,
       Cardinal argcount);

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

The DtCreateTerm function creates a terminal emulator widget hierarchy 🌈 No cap, that's the whole gig 💅

• parent — this argument specifies the parent widget ID 👑
• name — this argument specifies the name of the created widget 🎀
• arglist — this argument specifies the argument list 📋
• argcount — this argument specifies the number of attribute and value pairs in the argument list (arglist) 🔢

The DtTerm widget provides the core set of functionality needed to emulate an ANSI X3.64-1979- and ISO 6429:1992(E)-style terminal, such as the DEC VT220. This functionality includes text rendering, scrolling, margin and tab support, escape sequence parsing and the low-level OS-specific interface required to allocate and configure a pty or STREAMS pseudo-terminal device and write the system's utmp device. Obsessed with the range? We love a terminal widget with lore 🌈🦋

🔥 RETURN VALUE 🔥

Upon successful completion, the DtCreateTerm function returns the DtTerm widget ID. That's it, that's the return vibe 💖

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• dtterm(1)
• dtterm(5)
• pty(7)
• Dt/Term.h - DtTerm(5)
• DtTerm(3)
• DtTermInitialize(3)
• DtTermDisplaySend(3)
• DtTermSubprocSend(3)
• DtTermSubprocReap(3)

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