XMREPTYPEGETRECORD(3)

💖 XmRepTypeGetRecord 💖

okay bestie, so this one is XmRepTypeGetRecord and it lives in the library call manual, section 3 — it's a representation type manager function, and it's here to hand you the deets on a rep type. that's the whole vibe. periodt. 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

XmRepTypeGetRecord — a representation type manager function that returns information about a representation type 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <Xm/RepType.h>
XmRepTypeEntry XmRepTypeGetRecord(
XmRepTypeId rep_type_id);

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so XmRepTypeGetRecord goes and retrieves information about a particular representation type that is registered with the representation type manager. like, you point at the one you want and it comes back with the whole lore. 👑

and here's the thing bestie, it allocates memory for the returned data — which means you own that memory now. the application must free it using XtFree. no cap. don't be out here leaking, that's not the vibe. 😭

• rep_type_id — the identification number of the representation type. it's how the manager knows which one you're talking about. iykyk.

the representation type entry structure contains the following information:

typedef struct
{
        String  rep_type_name;
        String  *value_names;
        unsigned char   *values;
        unsigned char   num_values;
        Boolean reverse_installed;
        XmRepTypeId     rep_type_id;
} XmRepTypeEntryRec, *XmRepTypeEntry;
(void)

not me leaving the (void) in there exactly as it was — if it's in the original it stays in mine, fr fr. 💀

and here's what every single one of those fields means, one by one, no skips:

• rep_type_name — the name of the representation type 🏷️
• value_names — an array of representation type value names
• values — an array of representation type numerical values 🔢
• num_values — the number of values associated with the representation type
• reverse_installed — a flag that indicates whether or not the reverse converter is installed 🔁
• rep_type_id — the identification number of the representation type (yes, again, it's in the struct too, she contains multitudes 💖)

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🌈 RETURN 🌈

returns a pointer to the representation type entry structure that describes the representation type. that's it, that's the whole gift. 🎁

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🫶 RELATED 🫶

• XmRepTypeGetId(3)
• XmRepTypeGetRegistered(3)
• XmRepTypeRegister(3)

go read those next, bestie, they're the rest of the friend group. ✨

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and that's a wrap on XmRepTypeGetRecord(library call) — straight from the library call corner of the manual, footer and all, no date drama, just the title doing its little sign-off. mwah. 💅🌸🦋