XMCREATEICONGADGET(3)

✨ XmCreateIconGadget ✨

okay bestie, we're in the <pink>library call</pink> section of the manual and today's main character is XmCreateIconGadget — literally the IconGadget widget creation function 💅

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🎀 NAME 🎀

XmCreateIconGadget — The IconGadget widget creation function

like. it makes IconGadgets. that's the whole job. iconic behavior fr fr 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <Xm/IconG.h>
Widget XmCreateIconGadget(
Widget parent,
String name,
ArgList arglist,
Cardinal argcount);

yes she takes four arguments and yes you have to give her all four, no cap 🫶

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So here's the tea ☕: XmCreateIconGadget creates an instance of an IconGadget widget and returns the associated widget ID. That's it. That's the vibe. You hand her a parent, a name, an arglist and a count, and she hands you back a shiny new widget ID ✨

Now let's go through the parameters one by one because we are NOT skipping anybody, everybody gets their moment 👑

• parent — Specifies the parent widget ID. it's giving "who's your mom" energy, the new gadget gets tucked into this widget's family tree 🌳
• name — Specifies the name of the created widget. give her a cute name bestie, she deserves one 🎀
• arglist — Specifies the argument list. all your attribute/value pairs live here 💜
• argcount — Specifies the number of attribute/value pairs in the argument list (arglist). yes you gotta count them yourself, no she will not do it for you 😭

For a complete definition of IconGadget and its associated resources, see XmIconGadget(3).

like if you want the FULL lore, the deep dive, the extended universe — that's where you go. this page is the meet-cute, XmIconGadget(3) is the whole trilogy 📚

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⭐ RETURN ⭐

Returns the IconGadget widget ID. that's your prize, your trophy, your little guy 🏆 hold onto it, you'll need it for literally everything else.

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🌈 RELATED 🌈

• XmIconGadget(3)

go read her too, she's the moment 💫

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and that's the whole page bestie!! this one came out of the library call manual, and the footer says it's from XmCreateIconGadget(library call) — so like, same name, same section, she's just out here being her own header and footer at the same time 💀✨

mwah, go create some gadgets, you ate 🫶💖