XMIMVASETVALUES(3)

✨ XmImVaSetValues ✨

okay bestie, buckle up, because we're doing a library call today 💅 this one lives in section 3 of the manual, and it's giving input manager energy — let's get into it 🦋

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🌸 NAME 🌸

XmImVaSetValues — an input manager function that updates attributes of an input context ✨

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

#include <Xm/XmIm.h>
void XmImVaSetValues(
Widget widget);

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So XmImVaSetValues updates the attributes of the input context that's associated with the widget you hand it 🫶 it does this by passing those attributes along to XICSetValues, no cap.

🌟 heads up: the first time you call this routine, you should pass in all of the input context attributes. after that? you only call XmImVaSetValues when a value has actually changed. we don't do redundant calls around here 💅

and if you want the list of associated resources, go check the description in the XmImSetValues(3) man page — it's all there, iykyk 📖

This routine uses the ANSI C variable-length argument list (aka varargs) calling convention 🌈 the variable-length argument list is made up of groups of arguments, and each group contains an attribute followed by the value of that attribute 🎀

💀 IMPORTANT: the last argument in the list must be NULL. not optional. periodt. if you forget it, that's on you bestie 😭

Also lowkey the List and TextField widgets call XmImVaSetValues internally already 👑 so if you're working with those widgets, making further calls to XmImVaSetValues is unnecessary — save yourself the typing, main character 🦋

widget — specifies the ID of the widget registered with the input manager 🎯

If you want more info on variable-length argument lists, hit up the X Toolkit Intrinsics documentation — it's got the lore ✨

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👑 RELATED 👑

• XmImSetFocusValues(3)
• XmImSetValues(3)
• XmImVaSetFocusValues(3)

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and that's the whole vibe, bestie 💖 this was the XmImVaSetValues page from the library call manual, and honestly? iconic. go forth and set those values, and don't forget your NULL 🌟 mwah 🫶✨