XMVACREATEMANAGEDCOMBOBOX(3)

💖 XmVaCreateComboBox — the ComboBox convenience creation girlies 💖

okay bestie, welcome to XmVaCreateComboBox(library call) — yes that's the manual name, we're folding it in right here at the top so you never lose it 🎀 this is the library call corner of the man pages and it's giving "just make me a ComboBox, i don't wanna think" energy.

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✨ NAME ✨

XmVaCreateComboBox, XmVaCreateManagedComboBox — A ComboBox widget convenience creation functions.

like... they're literally the convenience-store version of creating a ComboBox. no cap 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <Xm/ComboBox.h>

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

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

look at that. beautiful. iconic. copy it exactly, bestie, the compiler is not forgiving and neither is Xt 🫶

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So these functions create an instance of a ComboBox widget and return the associated widget ID. They use the ANSI C variable-length argument list (varargs) calling convention — which is just fancy talk for "the ... at the end is where all your resource overrides go" 💜

• XmVaCreateComboBox — a convenience routine that calls XtCreateWidget.
• XmVaCreateManagedComboBox — a convenience routine that calls XtCreateManagedWidget.

✨ and here's what those arguments actually mean, no gatekeeping:

• parent — Specifies the parent widget ID. (your widget's parent, its little home, its main character's supporting cast 💖)
• name — Specifies the name of the created widget. (name it something cute, it deserves it)
• ... — Specifies the variable argument list to override the resource defaults. (this is where you go feral with XtN resources, go off 👑)

For a complete definition of ComboBox and its associated resources, see XmComboBox(3). fr fr, go read that one too, it's the full lore 🧚

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⭐ RETURN ⭐

Returns the ComboBox widget ID.

that's it. that's the tea. you get a Widget back and you go slay with it 🔥

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🌈 RELATED 🌈

the whole friend group, so you never have to guess:

• XmComboBox(3)
• XmCreateComboBox(3)
• XtCreateWidget(3)
• XtCreateManagedWidget(3)

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💀 quick reminder bestie: the ... varargs list is where you override resource defaults, so if your widget comes out looking cursed, check what you passed in there. it's giving user error, not library error, iykyk 🙈

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and that's the page!! 💅 this was XmVaCreateComboBox(library call) — yep, the same library call tag as the header, that's the source/version vibe of this little page, and the date is wherever your distro's docs happened to be built, mwah 🎀💖✨