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NAME

       XmText — The Text widget class "XmText" "widget class" "Text"

SYNOPSIS

       #include <Xm/Text.h>

DESCRIPTION

       Text  provides  a  single-line  and  multiline  text  editor for customizing both user and
       programmatic interfaces. It can be used for single-line string  entry,  forms  entry  with
       verification  procedures,  and  full-window  editing.   It  provides an application with a
       consistent editing system for textual data. The  screen's  textual  data  adjusts  to  the
       application writer's needs.

       Text   provides  separate  callback  lists  to  verify  movement  of  the  insert  cursor,
       modification of the text, and changes in input focus. Each of these callbacks provides the
       verification  function with the widget instance, the event that caused the callback, and a
       data structure specific to the verification type. From this information, the function  can
       verify  if  the  application considers this to be a legitimate state change and can signal
       the widget whether to continue with the action.

       The user interface tailors a new set of translations. The default translations provide key
       bindings for insert cursor movement, deletion, insertion, and selection of text.

       Text allows the user to select regions of text.  Selection is based on the model specified
       in the Inter-Client Communication Conventions Manual (ICCCM). Text  supports  primary  and
       secondary selection.

       In  some  Asian languages, texts are drawn vertically. Also, some characters are displayed
       with 90-degree clockwise rotation, and other characters are mapped to vertical glyphs that
       differ  from  the  normal  horizaontal glyphs.  Information about which characters require
       rotation or mapping to vertical  glyphs  is  specified  in  the  X  Locale  Database  (NLS
       databases) and handled by X library, depending on XNOrientation XOC values.  XmText widget
       should also handle the vertically aligned lines as for  editing,  entering,  or  selecting
       texts.

       The  vertical  writing  feature  of  the XmText widget is enabled when the XmTOP_TO_BOTTOM
       value is specified for the XmNlayoutDirection resource of the XmText widget. In that case,
       the horizontal scroll bar is displayed on the bottom of the XmText widget and the vertical
       scroll bar is displayed on the left side.

   Mouse Selection
       The Text widget allows text to be edited, inserted, and selected.  The user can cut, copy,
       and paste text by using the clipboard, primary transfer, or secondary transfer.  Text also
       provides a Drag and Drop facility that enables the user to copy or move data  within  Text
       or  to a different widget.  When keyboard focus policy is set to EXPLICIT, the widget that
       receives focus is the destination widget. In POINTER mode, any keyboard or mouse operation
       (except  secondary  selection)  in  an  editable  widget  establishes  that  widget as the
       destination.

       If a destination widget becomes insensitive or uneditable,  it  forfeits  its  destination
       status.  In  EXPLICIT  mode, when a widget becomes insensitive, the focus moves to another
       widget. If that widget is editable, it becomes the destination widget; otherwise, there is
       no destination widget. The text of any insensitive Text widget is stippled, indicating its
       state to the user.

       The insertion cursor, displayed as an I-beam, shows where  input  is  inserted.  Input  is
       inserted just before the insertion cursor.

       Text uses the XmQTnavigator, XmQTspecifyRenderTable, and XmQTscrollFrame traits, and holds
       the XmQTaccessTextual and XmQTtransfer traits.  The  widget  checks  its  parent  for  the
       XmQTscrollFrame  trait. If this trait does not exist, then the widget has no scrolling. If
       the trait does exist, and the ScrollFrame widget has  not  been  initialized,  the  widget
       creates two navigators and sets up the scrollbars.

       If  an  application  or  widget calls the setValue trait method of XmQTaccessTextual, then
       XmText will call XmTextSetString to set the string value.

   Classes
       Text inherits behavior, resources, and traits from Core and XmPrimitive.

       The class pointer is xmTextWidgetClass.

       The class name is XmText.

   Data Transfer Behavior
       Text supports transfer of the primary, secondary, and clipboard selections and dragging of
       selected  text  from  the  widget.   Text  can  also  be  the destination for the primary,
       secondary, and clipboard selections, and it supports dropping of data being  dragged  onto
       the widget.

       When  the  XmNconvertCallback  procedures  are  called,  the  location_data  member of the
       XmConvertCallbackStruct member is NULL if the selected text is being transferred.  If  the
       entire  text, not the selected text, is being transferred, the value of this member is the
       widget ID of the Text widget.

       As a source of data, Text supports the following targets  and  associated  conversions  of
       data to these targets:

       locale    If  the  locale  target  matches  the  widget's locale, the widget transfers the
                 selected text in the encoding of the locale.

       COMPOUND_TEXT
                 The widget transfers the selected text as type COMPOUND_TEXT.

       STRING    The widget transfers the selected text as type STRING.

       TEXT      If the selected text is fully convertible to the encoding  of  the  locale,  the
                 widget  transfers  the  selected text in the encoding of the locale.  Otherwise,
                 the widget transfers the selected text as type COMPOUND_TEXT.

       UTF8_STRING
                 The widget transfers the selected text as type UTF8_STRING.

       DELETE    The widget deletes the selected text.

       _MOTIF_CLIPBOARD_TARGETS
                 The widget transfers, as type ATOM, a list of the targets to  which  the  widget
                 can  convert  data  to  be placed on the clipboard immediately.  If the selected
                 text is fully convertible to  STRING,  these  include  STRING;  otherwise,  they
                 include COMPOUND_TEXT.

       _MOTIF_DEFERRED_CLIPBOARD_TARGETS
                 The  widget  transfers,  as  type  ATOM,  a  list of the targets it supports for
                 delayed transfer for the CLIPBOARD selection.  This widget currently supplies no
                 targets for _MOTIF_DEFERRED_CLIPBOARD_TARGETS.

       _MOTIF_EXPORT_TARGETS
                 The  widget  transfers,  as  type  ATOM, a list of the targets to be used as the
                 value of the DragContext's XmNexportTargets in a drag-and-drop transfer.   These
                 include  COMPOUND_TEXT,  UTF8_STRING,  the encoding of the locale, STRING, TEXT,
                 BACKGROUND, and FOREGROUND.

       _MOTIF_LOSE_SELECTION
                 The widget takes the following actions:

                    •  When losing the PRIMARY selection, it unhighlights the selected  text  and
                       calls the XmNlosePrimaryCallback procedures.

                    •  When  losing  the  SECONDARY selection, it removes the secondary selection
                       highlight.

                    •  When losing the _MOTIF_DESTINATION selection, if the widget does not  have
                       focus,  it changes the cursor to indicate that the widget is no longer the
                       destination.

       As a source of data, Text also supports the following standard Motif targets:

       BACKGROUND
                 The widget transfers XmNbackground as type PIXEL.

       CLASS     The widget finds the first shell in the widget hierarchy  that  has  a  WM_CLASS
                 property and transfers the contents as text in the current locale.

       CLIENT_WINDOW
                 The  widget  finds  the  first  shell  in the widget hierarchy and transfers its
                 window as type WINDOW.

       COLORMAP  The widget transfers XmNcolormap as type COLORMAP.

       FOREGROUND
                 The widget transfers XmNforeground as type PIXEL.

       NAME      The widget finds the first shell in the widget  hierarchy  that  has  a  WM_NAME
                 property and transfers the contents as text in the current locale.

       TARGETS   The  widget  transfers,  as type ATOM, a list of the targets it supports.  These
                 include the standard targets in this list.  These  also  include  COMPOUND_TEXT,
                 UTF8_STRING, the encoding of the locale, STRING, and TEXT.

       TIMESTAMP The  widget  transfers  the  timestamp  used  to  acquire  the selection as type
                 INTEGER.

       _MOTIF_RENDER_TABLE
                 The widget transfers XmNrenderTable if it  exists,  or  else  the  default  text
                 render table, as type STRING.

       _MOTIF_ENCODING_REGISTRY
                 The  widget transfers its encoding registry as type STRING.  The value is a list
                 of NULL separated items  in  the  form  of  tag  encoding  pairs.   This  target
                 symbolizes the transfer target for the Motif Segment Encoding Registry.  Widgets
                 and applications can use this Registry to register  text  encoding  formats  for
                 specified  render  table  tags.   Applications  access  this Registry by calling
                 XmRegisterSegmentEncoding and XmMapSegmentEncoding.

       As a destination for data, Text chooses a target and requests conversion of the  selection
       to  that  target.   If  the  encoding  of  the  locale is present in the list of available
       targets, Text chooses a requested target from the available targets in the following order
       of preference:

          1. The encoding of the locale

          2. TEXT

          4. UTF8_STRING

          3. COMPOUND_TEXT

          4. STRING

       If  the  encoding  of  the  locale  is  not present in the list of available targets, Text
       chooses a  requested  target  from  the  available  targets  in  the  following  order  of
       preference:

          4. UTF8_STRING

          1. COMPOUND_TEXT

          2. STRING

   New Resources
       The  following  table  defines a set of widget resources used by the programmer to specify
       data. The programmer can also set the resource values for the  inherited  classes  to  set
       attributes  for  this  widget. To reference a resource by name or by class in a .Xdefaults
       file, remove the XmN or XmC prefix and use the remaining letters. To specify  one  of  the
       defined  values  for  a  resource  in  a .Xdefaults file, remove the Xm prefix and use the
       remaining letters (in either lowercase or uppercase, but include any  underscores  between
       words).   The  codes  in  the  access  column indicate if the given resource can be set at
       creation time (C), set by using XtSetValues (S), retrieved by using XtGetValues (G), or is
       not applicable (N/A).

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RELATED

       Core(3),          XmCreateScrolledText(3),         XmCreateText(3),         XmFontList(3),
       XmFontListAppendEntry(3),    XmPrimitive(3),    XmTextClearSelection(3),    XmTextCopy(3),
       XmTextCopyLink(3),   XmTextCut(3),   XmTextEnableRedisplay(3),  XmTextDisableRedisplay(3),
       XmTextField(3),   XmTextFindString(3),    XmTextFindStringWcs(3),    XmTextGetBaseline(3),
       XmTextGetEditable(3),       XmTextGetInsertionPosition(3),       XmTextGetLastPosition(3),
       XmTextGetMaxLength(3),          XmTextGetSelection(3),           XmTextGetSelectionWcs(3),
       XmTextGetSelectionPosition(3),           XmTextGetSource(3),           XmTextGetString(3),
       XmTextGetStringWcs(3),          XmTextGetSubstring(3),           XmTextGetSubstringWcs(3),
       XmTextGetTopCharacter(3),     XmTextInsert(3),     XmTextInsertWcs(3),     XmTextPaste(3),
       XmTextPasteLink(3),      XmTextPosToXY(3),       XmTextPosition(3),       XmTextRemove(3),
       XmTextReplace(3),      XmTextReplaceWcs(3),      XmTextScroll(3),     XmTextSetAddMode(3),
       XmTextSetEditable(3),        XmTextSetHighlight(3),         XmTextSetInsertionPosition(3),
       XmTextSetMaxLength(3),   XmTextSetSelection(3),   XmTextSetSource(3),  XmTextSetString(3),
       XmTextSetStringWcs(3), XmTextSetTopCharacter(3), XmTextShowPosition(3),  XmTextXYToPos(3),
       XmVaCreateText(3), and XmVaCreateManagedText(3).

                                                                                        XmText(3)