XMVACREATECONTAINER(3)

💖 XmVaCreateContainer — a Container widget creation moment 💖

okay bestie, welcome to XmVaCreateContainer(3) from the library call section, no big deal, just your new fave convenience creation functions for the Container widget. pull up a chair, we're doing varargs 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

XmVaCreateContainer, XmVaCreateManagedContainer — A Container widget convenience creation functions.

like... they make Containers. for you. so you don't have to. 🎀

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <Xm/Container.h>

Widget XmVaCreateContainer(
Widget parent,
String name,
...);

Widget XmVaCreateManagedContainer(
Widget parent,
String name,
...);

yes the indentation is giving "I was written in 1994 and I'm thriving" and honestly? iconic. 👑

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So these functions create an instance of a Container widget and hand you back the associated widget ID. cute, right? 🫶 They use the ANSI C variable-length argument list (varargs) calling convention — that's the ... you saw up there, it's not being mysterious, it's just taking however many arguments you feel like throwing at it.

• The XmVaCreateContainer function is a convenience routine that calls XtCreateWidget.
• The XmVaCreatemanagedContainer function is a convenience routine that calls XtCreateManagedWidget.

(not me typing XmVaCreatemanagedContainer with the lowercase m — that's literally how it's written in the source, so we're keeping it fr fr 🙈)

🧚 the arguments, bestie 🧚

• parent — Specifies the parent widget ID. aka who's your daddy widget. 💀
• name — Specifies the name of the created widget. give it a name, it deserves one, main character energy only. ✨
• ... — Specifies the variable argument list to override the resource defaults. this is your moment to be extra, go off. 🔥

For a complete definition of Container and its associated resources, see XmContainer(3). seriously, go read it, I'll wait. 😌

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⭐ RETURN ⭐

Returns the Container widget ID.

that's it. that's the whole return. a little ID. your little ID. cherish it. 🥹

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🌈 RELATED 🌈

• XmContainer(3)
• XmCreateContainer(3)
• XtCreateWidget(3)
• XtCreateManagedWidget(3)

the whole friend group. the squad. iykyk. 💜

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and that's the page!! the footer said XmVaCreateContainer(library call) and, like, that's genuinely all it gave us for source/version and date info — no date, no version number, nothing, so I'm just gonna say: this is the library call manual page for XmVaCreateContainer, and if you need the exact version and date, bestie, it's whatever your system shipped with it. 💖✨🎀 bye, go make a Container, you're gonna slay 🦋