XMCREATEINFORMATIONDIALOG(3)

💖 XmCreateInformationDialog 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the XmCreateInformationDialog page — it's a library call, and it's literally the glow-up shortcut for making an InformationDialog without hand-building the whole thing. no cap. ✨

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✨ NAME ✨

XmCreateInformationDialog — the MessageBox InformationDialog convenience creation function 🫶

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

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

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so. XmCreateInformationDialog is a convenience creation function, meaning it does the boring setup for you. it creates a DialogShell and an unmanaged MessageBox that's a child of that DialogShell. two-for-one. iconic behavior honestly. 👑

an InformationDialog is the widget whose whole job is telling the user stuff — like, "hey, here's the status of the action you just did." it comes with a symbol, a message, and three buttons. the default symbol is i. the default button labels are OK, Cancel, and Help. periodt. 💅

to pop the InformationDialog up, use XtManageChild and pass the MessageBox as the widget parameter. to pop it back down, use XtUnmanageChild. that's the whole vibe check right there.

⚠️ heads up: XmCreateInformationDialog forces the value of the Shell resource XmNallowShellResize to True. not a suggestion, it just does it. 😌

now the args, bestie:

• parent — specifies the parent widget ID 🌈
• name — specifies the name of the created widget 🎀
• arglist — specifies the argument list ⭐
• argcount — specifies the number of attribute/value pairs in the argument list (arglist) 🔥

and if you want the complete definition of MessageBox plus all its associated resources, go read XmMessageBox(3). iykyk. 📖

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💜 RETURN 💜

Returns the MessageBox widget ID. that's it, that's the gift. 🎁

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🌈 RELATED 🌈

• XmMessageBox(3).

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! no notes, she ate. 💅

this little love letter lives under the manual name XmCreateInformationDialog(library call), straight from XmCreateInformationDialog(library call) — go forth and pop up some dialogs, you've got this fr fr 🫶💖✨