XMVACREATEMANAGEDFORM(3)

✨ XmVaCreateForm — A Form widget convenience creation functions ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the XmVaCreateForm(library call) page, aka the little corner of the Motif library where Form widgets get born 💖

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🌸 NAME 🌸

XmVaCreateForm, XmVaCreateManagedForm — A Form widget convenience creation functions.

the way these two are literally just here to make your life easier when you wanna summon a Form widget into existence 🫶

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

#include <Xm/Form.h>

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

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

look at her. gorgeous. iconic. no cap ✨

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so these functions create an instance of a Form widget and returns the associated widget ID. yes, you read that right — these routines use the ANSI C variable-length argument list (varargs) calling convention, so you can just keep throwing arguments at her until you run out of vibes 🔥

XmVaCreateForm is a convenience routine that calls XtCreateWidget.

XmVaCreateManagedForm is a convenience routine that calls XtCreateManagedWidget.

lowkey the only difference is one of them manages your widget for you and the other one lets you do it yourself. main character choices fr fr 👑

• parent — Specifies the parent widget ID.
• name — Specifies the name of the created widget.
• ... — Specifies the variable argument list to override the resource defaults.

for a complete definition of Form and its associated resources, see XmForm(3). go read it bestie, it's giving ✨lore✨

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🦋 RETURN 🦋

Returns the Form widget ID. that's it. that's the whole return. she's simple, she's effective 💖

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🌈 RELATED 🌈

• XmForm(3)
• XmCreateForm(3)
• XtCreateWidget(3)
• XtCreateManagedWidget(3)

iykyk — this is the little family tree of Form widget creation 🧚

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okay that's the whole page bestie!! this was XmVaCreateForm(library call) from the library call manual — no version or date info was handed to me, so that's the entire sign-off. slay, go make some Forms 💅✨🎀