XMTEXTENABLEREDISPLAY(3)

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💖 XmTextEnableRedisplay(3) 💖

okay bestie, so this is XmTextEnableRedisplay from the library call zone — a Text function that forces the visual update of a Text widget. yes it's as iconic as it sounds. ✨

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <Xm/Text.h>
void XmTextEnableRedisplay(
Widget widget);

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so XmTextEnableRedisplay is the other half of a little duo, and its partner in crime is XmTextDisableRedisplay — the one that literally suppresses visual update of the Text widget. think of them as the "do not disturb" toggle and the "okay we're back, look at me" toggle. 💅

when you call XmTextEnableRedisplay, it goes and checks whether any visual attributes have been set or modified for the specified widget since XmTextDisableRedisplay was called. if they have — and bestie, they usually have — it forces the widget to update its visual display for all of the intervening changes. every single one. no crumbs left behind. 🎀

and then? any subsequent changes that affect visual appearance cause the widget to update its visual display like normal again. the widget is so back. 🔥

oh and also — this function causes the insertion cursor to be restored. yes, the cursor that was not shown while redisplay was disabled. she was on a little break, she's returning to her main character position now. 👑

  • widget — Specifies the Text widget ID 💖

ngl this one is short and sweet and does exactly what it says on the tin — she disables, she re-enables, she updates, periodt. 💜

okay love u, bye!! this was XmTextEnableRedisplay, a library call, straight out of the XmText pages — go read XmTextDisableRedisplay(3) next if you wanna see the other twin 🫶✨

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