XMREPTYPEADDREVERSE(3)

💖 XmRepTypeAddReverse 💖

okay bestie, welcome to section 3 of the library call girlies — this is XmRepTypeAddReverse, a genuine representation type manager function, and she's here to install the reverse converter for a representation type you already registered. yes queen, the reverse one. the glow-up converter. ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

XmRepTypeAddReverse — a representation type manager function that installs the reverse converter for a previously registered representation type. it's giving "you built the thing, now let me build the way back." 🦋

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <Xm/RepType.h>
void XmRepTypeAddReverse(
XmRepTypeId rep_type_id);

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so XmRepTypeAddReverse installs the reverse converter for a previously registered representation type. that's the whole job, and she does it flawlessly, no notes. 🔥

what's a reverse converter, you ask? it's the function that takes a numerical representation type value and hands you back its corresponding string value. so you put a number in, you get a name out. it's giving vending machine but make it resource-file-coded. 🎀

certain applications may require this capability — like, they need it — either to obtain a string value to display on a screen, or to build a resource file. so if you're out here needing to show the human-readable version of a number, or you're assembling a resource file and you need the names not the digits, this is your girl. 💜

now here's the tea. ☕ the values argument of the XmRepTypeRegister function can be used to register representation types with nonconsecutive values or with duplicate names for the same value. she's flexible like that.

but bestie, pay attention, because this part matters: if the list of numerical values for a representation type contains duplicate values, the reverse converter uses the first name in the value_names list that matches the specified numeric value. first come, first served. no cap. 💀

for example — and this is the iconic example, the main character example — if a value_names array has cancel, proceed, and abort, and the corresponding values array contains 0, 1, and 0, then the reverse converter will return cancel instead of abort for an input value of 0. because cancel showed up to the party first. abort is literally right there and she's getting ignored. 🫶

🦋 the argument 🦋

• rep_type_id — Specifies the identification number of the representation type. that's it, that's the whole vibe check. she needs to know which type you're reversing. 👑

heads up: the reverse converter needs the type to be previously registered — you can't reverse-convert a type that doesn't exist yet. no shortcuts, babe. 🙈

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🌈 RELATED 🌈

• XmRepTypeGetId(3)
• XmRepTypeRegister(3)

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and that's the page, periodt. 💖 this was XmRepTypeAddReverse from the library call manual (section 3, where all the good function girlies live), footer included because we keep every single detail around here — the XmRepTypeAddReverse(library call) source-and-title line, faithfully repeated at the bottom like a little signature. slay, go install your reverse converter, ily. 🌸✨💅