XMTEXTFIELDXYTOPOS(3)

💅 XmTextFieldXYToPos — bestie edition ✨

okay so real talk, this is a library call from the <Xm/TextF.h> era, and it's called XmTextFieldXYToPos. literally what it does is: you give it an x and a y, and it tells you which character in the text is nearest to that spot. that's it. that's the whole vibe. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

XmTextFieldXYToPos — a TextField function that accesses the character position nearest an x and y position 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <Xm/TextF.h>
XmTextPosition XmTextFieldXYToPos(
Widget widget,
Position x,
Position y);

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so here's the tea, bestie 🫖 — XmTextFieldXYToPos accesses the character position nearest to the specified x and y position, relative to the upper left corner of the TextField widget. upper left corner is the origin, that's the whole map. no cap.

• widget — Specifies the TextField widget ID 👑
• x — Specifies the x position, relative to the upper left corner of the widget.
• y — Specifies the y position, relative to the upper left corner of the widget.

and if you want the complete definition of TextField and all its associated resources (like, the full lore ✨), go see XmTextField(3). it's giving required reading.

🦋 RETURN 🦋

Returns the character position in the text nearest the x and y position specified. This is an integer number of characters from the beginning of the buffer. and the first character position is 0 (zero) — yes bestie, zero-indexed, we love to see it 💅

🌈 RELATED 🌈

• XmTextField(3).

XmTextFieldXYToPos (library call) — that's the source/version tag and the date stamp that lives down at the bottom of the original page, and honestly it deserved a little shoutout, so here it is 🫶 stay hydrated, go read your resources, periodt 💜