XMSCALESETTICKS(3)

✨ XmScaleSetTicks ✨

okay bestie so you're in the XmScaleSetTicks(library call) pages, welcome to the club 💅 this one is a Scale function, and it's all about tick marks. yes. the little lines. the sparkle of a slider. let's go 🎀

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🌸 NAME 🌸

XmScaleSetTicks — a Scale function that controls tick marks 👑

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <Xm/Scale.h>
void XmScaleSetTicks(
Widget scale,
int big_every,
Cardinal num_medium,
Cardinal num_small,
Dimension size_big,
Dimension size_medium,
Dimension size_small);

like. look at that signature. seven whole arguments. she's that girl fr fr 💜

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So XmScaleSetTicks is the one in charge of how many tick marks a Scale has, where they sit, and how big they are. ✨

Every single tick mark is a SeparatorGadget, and it's oriented perpendicular to the Scale's orientation. So like, if your Scale is horizontal, the tick marks go vertical. simple geometry, no cap 🧚

⚠️ ok important one. If you set tick marks on a Scale and then you go change that Scale's orientation? You are not done yet, bestie. You have homework. Here's the list:

• Remove all the tick marks. To remove tick marks from a Scale, you must destroy (with XtDestroyChildren) the SeparatorGadget tick marks. Heads up on the child order: the first two children of a Scale are its title and scroll bar, and all additional children are tick marks. iykyk 🫶
• Recreate the tick marks by calling XmScaleSetTicks. ✨

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🎀 The arguments, one by one 🎀

• scale — Specifies the Scale widget ID that is getting the tick marks. this is the main character, obviously 👑
• big_every — Specifies the number of scale values between big ticks. the big girls 💅
• num_medium — Specifies the number of medium ticks between big values. the middle children 🍓
• num_small — Specifies the number of small ticks between medium values. the tiny babies 🌸
• size_big — Specifies the size (either width or height) of the big ticks. 📏
• size_medium — Specifies the size (either width or height) of the medium ticks. 📏
• size_small — Specifies the size (either width or height) of the small ticks. 📏

and for a complete definition of Scale and all its associated resources, go read XmScale(3). it's giving required reading 📚

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🌈 RELATED 🌈

• XmScale(3).

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okay that's the whole page, you're so smart, you ate this 💖 The footer of the original just repeats XmScaleSetTicks(library call) — same title, same manual section, no extra date or version tucked in there — so consider this your cute little sign-off instead. mwah. go set some ticks, bestie 🦋✨🎀