XMSTRINGINITCONTEXT(3)

💖 XmStringInitContext 💖

okay bestie, so this one is a library call from the Xm fam, and it's literally the little starter pack for reading a compound string piece by piece 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

XmStringInitContext — it's a compound string function, and its whole vibe is creating a data structure so you can scan an XmString component by component 🦋

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <Xm/Xm.h>
Boolean XmStringInitContext(
XmStringContext * context,
XmString string);

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so what it DOES, bestie: XmStringInitContext makes a context, and that context is literally your little passport to read out the contents of a compound string component by component 💅 it's giving "one piece at a time, no rush, we're thorough here."

it hands back a Boolean status, and that status is the tea — it tells you whether the context could not be initialized 😭 (so like, if it can't get set up, you'll know).

if the function returns True, bestie, it has allocated space to hold the returned context 👑 and here's the part where you have to be a responsible main character: the application is responsible for managing the allocated space. no ghosting your own memory. you recover that memory by calling XmStringFreeContext ✨

• context — specifies a pointer to the allocated context 🫶
• string — specifies the string 🌸

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✨ RETURN ✨

returns True if the context was allocated ⭐ periodt.

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✨ RELATED ✨

• XmStringCreate(3). — go read that one too, iykyk 💜

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and that's the whole page, bestie 💖 this was XmStringInitContext(library call) — that's the source/version and date energy right there, signed, sealed, slayed 🧚💅