XMFONTLISTENTRYGETFONT(3)

💖 XmFontListEntryGetFont 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the XmFontListEntryGetFont page from the library call manual — a font list function that retrieves font information from a font list entry. yes it's a whole vibe, and yes we're getting into it 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <Xm/Xm.h>
XtPointer XmFontListEntryGetFont(
XmFontListEntry entry,
XmFontType *type_return);

like, that's the whole signature, no notes 🫶

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so XmFontListEntryGetFont goes and retrieves font information for a specified font list entry. that's literally its whole job and it ate 💅

here's the tea though, it depends on what your entry is holding:

• if the font list entry contains a font, then type_return returns XmFONT_IS_FONT, and the function returns a pointer to an XFontStruct.
• if the font list entry contains a font set, then type_return returns XmFONT_IS_FONTSET, and the function returns the XFontSet.

🎀 Arguments

• entry — specifies the font list entry. that's the one you're asking about, bestie.
• type_return — specifies a pointer to the type of the font element for the current entry. valid values are XmFONT_IS_FONT and XmFONT_IS_FONTSET. it's giving "tell me what you are" energy ✨

⚠️ okay important, do NOT skip this: the returned XFontSet or XFontStruct is not a copy of the toolkit data, and it must not be freed. it is not yours, bestie, put it down 🙈 no XtFree, no free, nothing. hands off. periodt.

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🦋 RETURN 🦋

returns an XFontSet or a pointer to an XFontStruct structure. that's it, that's the whole return value 🌈

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🔥 RELATED 🔥

• XmFontList(3)
• XmFontListEntryCreate(3)
• XmFontListEntryGetTag(3)
• XmFontListEntryLoad(3)
• XmFontListNextEntry(3)

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and that's the page!! XmFontListEntryGetFont(library call) — that's the manual name and the footer source right there, and ngl there's no date stamp on this one so I can't give you one 🫶 go read the related pages, ily, bye 💖✨🎀