XMSTRINGCREATESIMPLE(3)

💖 XmStringCreateSimple — NAME ✨

XmStringCreateSimple — a compound string function that creates a compound string in the language environment of a widget 🦋 (she's a library call, bestie, from the <Xm/Xm.h> cinematic universe)

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <Xm/Xm.h>
XmString XmStringCreateSimple(
char * text);

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so picture this: XmStringCreateSimple makes you a compound string with a text component and a charset tag. and where does she get that charset from?? she derives the character set from the current language environment. main character behavior honestly 💅

here's the tea on how she picks that charset: the routine attempts to derive a character set from the value of the LANG environment variable. and if that doesn't result in a valid character set?? no worries, she just uses a vendor-specific default 🎀. and if your vendor hasn't specified a different value, that default is ISO8859-1. periodt.

now, the function will allocate space to hold the returned compound string. and this part is important bestie — the application is responsible for managing the allocated space 👑. you can get that space back by calling XmStringFree. don't ghost the memory, okay?? that's not the vibe 🫶

🚨 NOTE: this routine is obsolete and exists for compatibility with previous releases. it has been replaced by XmStringCreateLocalized. she's giving legacy queen, and we respect her, but like… maybe use the new one 💀

• text — Specifies a NULL-terminated string to be used as the text component of the compound string. 🌈

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🦋 RETURN 🦋

Returns a new compound string. iconic. no cap ✨

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💜 RELATED 💜

• XmStringCreate(3)
• XmStringCreateLocalized(3)

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and that's the whole page babes 🎀 this was XmStringCreateSimple(library call) — it lives in the <Xm/Xm.h> header, it's an XmString-returning library call, and the version/date deets on this one are exactly as printed on the original footer. go manage your memory and slay 💖🫶✨