XMSTRINGGENERATE(3)

✨ XmStringGenerate ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the XmStringGenerate page from the library call manual 💖 this one is a convenience function that generates a compound string, and honestly? it's giving little helper that does the tedious stuff for you. no cap.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

XmStringGenerate — a convenience function that generates a compound string. that's it, that's the whole vibe. 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <Xm/Xm.h>
XmString XmStringGenerate(
XtPointer text,
XmStringTag tag,
XmTextType type,
XmStringTag rendition);

literally copy-paste that and you're already halfway there, periodt 💅

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so here's the tea ☕ XmStringGenerate calls the XmStringParseText function with a default parse table of entries consisting of '', which maps to Separator, and '', which maps to Tab. that's the default table it rolls with, no input needed from you.

then — and this is the iconic part — matching RENDITION_BEGIN and RENDITION_END components containing rendition get placed around the resulting XmString. so your string comes out all wrapped up and cute 🎁

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🍓 the arguments, bestie 🍓

• text — specifies a NULL-terminated string containing characters of a type determined by type. so like, the actual words you wanna send. 📝
• tag — specifies the tag to be used in creating the result. the type of tag created (charset or locale) depends on the text type and the value given. if the specified value is NULL, and type indicates that a charset tag should be created, then the tag will have the value of XmFONTLIST_DEFAULT_TAG. and if tag is NULL, and type indicates a locale tag, then the tag will have the value of _MOTIF_DEFAULT_LOCALE. so basically, NULL isn't a dead end here, it just picks a default for you. king behavior honestly 👑
• type — specifies the type of text to be passed in, and the tag type. if a locale tag should be created, then type has a value of either XmMULTIBYTE_TEXT or XmWIDECHAR_TEXT. if a charset should be created, type has a value of XmCHARSET_TEXT. pick your fighter, i guess 🥊
• rendition — specifies the rendition tag to be used in an XmSTRING_COMPONENT_RENDITION_BEGIN component which will begin the returned string and in an XmSTRING_COMPONENT_RENDITION_END component which will end it. if rendition is NULL, no rendition tag is placed. so NULL = no wrapping, no drama, just the string raw 🙈

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👑 RETURN 👑

returns a new compound string ✨ the function will allocate space to hold the returned compound string. so listen — when the application no longer needs the returned compound string, the application should call XmStringFree.

bestie this is the part where you don't forget to free it 😭 memory doesn't free itself, that's not the vibe. XmStringFree, okay? okay. 🫶

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🌈 RELATED 🌈

• XmString(3)
• XmStringFree(3)

go read those too, iykyk 📚

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and that's the whole page, gorgeous 💖 this was XmStringGenerate(library call), signing off from the library call manual with all the love, all the compound strings, and absolutely zero memory leaks. slay, stay hydrated, and call XmStringFree 🎀✨🦋💅