XMTEXTGETBASELINE(3)

🌸 XmTextGetBaseline — the vibe check for your Text widget's baseline 💅

okay bestie, welcome to XmTextGetBaseline, a library call straight out of the XmText family ✨ it's a Text function that accesses the y position of the baseline, and honestly? it's giving very precise, very demure, very mindful. 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <Xm/Text.h>
int XmTextGetBaseline(
Widget widget);

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So XmTextGetBaseline accesses the y position of the baseline in the Text widget, and that position is relative to the y position of the top of the widget. no cap, that's the whole flex. 💖

🚨 okay listen up, vertical mode girlies: when the XmNlayoutDirection resource is XmTOP_TO_BOTTOM, this function returns 0 and your program should go use XmTextGetCenterline instead. that's the assignment, fr fr. 😭

• widget — Specifies the Text widget ID 🫶

For a complete definition of Text and its associated resources, see XmText(3). 👑

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⭐ RETURN ⭐

It returns an integer value that indicates the y position of the baseline in the Text widget 🌈

And the way it calculates that?? obsessed. it takes into account:

• the margin height
• the shadow thickness
• the highlight thickness
• and the font ascent of the first font (set) in the fontlist used for drawing text

In this calculation, the y position of the top of the widget is 0 (zero). periodt. 💅

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💜 RELATED 💜

• XmText(3)
• XmTextGetCenterline(3)

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and that's the whole page, bestie 🎀 this lil cutie lives in the library call section of the manual, so go forth and measure those baselines with main character energy 👑💖 iykyk ✨