XMTEXTGETSELECTION(3)

✨ NAME ✨

bestie, welcome to the XmTextGetSelection(library call) page 💖 XmTextGetSelection — A Text function that retrieves the value of the primary selection. no cap, that's the whole name vibe.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <Xm/Text.h>
char * XmTextGetSelection(
Widget widget);

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so XmTextGetSelection retrieves the value of the primary selection. It returns a NULL pointer if no text is selected in the widget. The application is responsible for freeing the storage associated with the string by calling XtFree. periodt.

• widget — Specifies the Text widget ID 💅

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

💫 RETURN 💫

Returns a character pointer to the string that is associated with the primary selection. slay 💖

🎀 RELATED 🎀

XmText(3) and XmTextGetSelectionWcs(3).

okay that's the whole page, bestie! the footer was XmTextGetSelection(library call) — so the source/version/date tea is just that manual-call label, no extra dates. bye 🫶