XMACTIVATEPROTOCOL(3)

✨ NAME ✨

XmActivateProtocol — a VendorShell function that activates a protocol, bestie 💖

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <Xm/Protocols.h>
void XmActivateProtocol(
Widget shell,
Atom property,
Atom protocol);

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

Okay so XmActivateProtocol does exactly what it says on the tin: it activates a protocol. If the shell is realized, it goes ahead and updates the handlers and the property. Slay 💅

Now here's the tea, because this part is lowkey iconic: sometimes it's genuinely useful to let a protocol's state info — like callback lists, and so on — just persist, even though the client might decide to temporarily resign from the interaction. Main character energy, honestly. And how is that supported? By letting a protocol live in one of two states: active or inactive 🦋

• If the protocol is active and the shell is realized, the property contains the protocol Atom. ✨
• If the protocol is inactive, the Atom is not present in the property. 💀

Also, not me needing to tell you that XmActivateWMProtocol is a convenience interface 🫶 It calls XmActivateProtocol with the property value set to the atom returned by interning WM_PROTOCOLS. Periodt.

🍓 Arguments, babes

• shell — Specifies the widget with which the protocol property is associated.
• property — Specifies the protocol property.
• protocol — Specifies the protocol Atom.

And for a complete definition of VendorShell and its associated resources, see VendorShell(3). Iykyk 🌈

🧚 RELATED 🧚

VendorShell(3), XmActivateWMProtocol(3), XmRemoveProtocols(3) and XmInternAtom(3) — go read them too, they're all part of the same little family 💜

and that's the whole page, bestie! this was XmActivateProtocol, a library call from section 3 of the manual — mwah, go activate something, you're gonna ate 👑🎀💖