XMSTRINGGETNEXTSEGMENT(3)

🌸 XmStringGetNextSegment — a library call, bestie 🌸

okay so this is the XmStringGetNextSegment(3) page, and it's giving "vintage Motif realness" — she's old, she's still here, and she still works. let's get into it 💖

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✨ NAME ✨

XmStringGetNextSegment — a compound string function that fetches the bytes in the next segment of a compound string 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <Xm/Xm.h>
Boolean XmStringGetNextSegment(
XmStringContext context,
char **text,
XmStringTag *tag,
XmStringDirection *direction,
Boolean *separator);

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so first thing, bestie, and I need you to hear me on this: this routine is obsolete and it exists purely for compatibility with previous releases. it's not the moment, it's not the vibe, it's the legacy support. 💀

if you actually want to read the contents of a compound string, you read each component of the string with XmStringGetNextTriple. that's the move. periodt.

anyway, what this XmString function does is return the type, length, and value of the next component in the compound string. XmStringGetNextSegment fetches the bytes in the next segment, and repeated calls fetch sequential segments — so like, call it over and over and you just keep strolling through the string, one segment at a time. 🚶‍♀️✨

every single call hands you back the text, tag, and direction of the fetched segment. and you get a Boolean status returned, which tells you whether a valid segment was successfully parsed. like a little vibe check on your parse. 🫶

💖 important, do not skip: if the function returns True, then the function allocates space to hold the returned text and tag. you — the application — are responsible for managing that allocated space. you can recover the allocated space by calling XtFree. don't just leave it there, that's rude. 😭

🌈 the parameters, one by one 🌈

• context — specifies the string context structure which was allocated by the XmStringInitContext function. yes, you gotta make one first. iykyk.
• text — specifies a pointer to a NULL-terminated string.
• tag — specifies a pointer to the font list element tag associated with the text. 🎀
• direction — specifies a pointer to the direction of the text.
• separator — specifies whether the next component of the compound string is a separator.

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⭐ RETURN ⭐

returns True if a valid segment is found. that's it, that's the whole answer, slay. 👑

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💜 RELATED 💜

• XmStringCreate(3)
• XmStringInitContext(3)

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and that's the page, bestie!! this was the XmStringGetNextSegment(library call) manual page, straight out of the library call section, no cap. now go call XtFree on your allocated space before you go, I'm literally begging you 🙈💖 ✨🦋🌸