XMIMGETXIM(3)

💖 XMIMGETXIM 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the XmImGetXIM page — it's a library call from the Motif input-manager girlies, and yes it lives in the manual under <lavender>XmImGetXIM(library call)</lavender> iykyk ✨

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✨ NAME ✨

XmImGetXIM — an input manager function that retrieves the input method associated with a specified widget 🎀

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <Xm/XmIm.h>
XIM XmImGetXIM(
Widget widget);

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so what does she do? XmImGetXIM retrieves the XIM data structure that represents the input method the input manager has opened for the widget you point at 👑

and here's the tea: if an input method has not been opened by a previous call to XmImRegister, then the first time this routine gets called, it opens an input method for you — using the XmNinputMethod resource for the VendorShell 🌈

and if XmNinputMethod is NULL? no stress, she just opens an input method using the current locale 💅

and if she can't open an input method at all? 💀 she returns NULL. that's it. that's the whole mood.

• widget — specifies the ID of a widget registered with the input manager 🫶

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👑 RETURN 👑

she returns the input method for the current locale associated with the specified widget's input manager 💖

otherwise? NULL. simple as that.

⚠️ and listen — the application is responsible for freeing the returned XIM by calling XmImCloseXIM. that's on you, not her. don't forget, bestie 😭

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🌈 RELATED 🌈

• XmImCloseXIM(3)
• XmImGetXIM(3)
• XmImMbLookupString(3)
• XmImRegister(3)

the whole friend group fr fr 🫶

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and that's the page!! XmImGetXIM(library call) — that's literally the title and the footer both, iconic, no notes 💅✨ go open an input method, main character 🌸💜