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NAME
XmTextField — The TextField class
SYNOPSIS
#include <Xm/Xm.h>
DESCRIPTION
The TextField widget provides a single line text editor for customizing both user and programmatic
interfaces. It is used for single-line string entry, and forms entry with verification procedures. It
provides an application with a consistent editing system for textual data.
TextField 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 actions. The key bindings have been added for insert cursor
movement, deletion, insertion, and selection of text.
TextField allows the user to select regions of text. Selection is based on the model specified in the
Inter-Client Communication Conventions Manual (ICCCM). TextField supports primary and secondary
selection.
TextField uses the XmQTnavigator, XmQTspecifyRenderTable, and XmQTscrollFrame traits, and holds the
XmQTaccessTextual XmQTtransfer traits.
If an application or widget calls the setValue trait method of XmQTaccessTextual, then XmTextField will
call XmTextFieldSetString to set the string value.
Data Transfer Behavior
TextField supports transfer of the primary, secondary, and clipboard selections and dragging of selected
text from the widget. TextField 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 TextField
widget.
As a source of data, TextField supports the following targets and associated conversions of data to these
targets:
UTF8_STRING
The widget transfers the selected text as type UTF8_STRING.
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.
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. These include the following targets:
• UTF8_STRING
• COMPOUND_TEXT
• The encoding of the locale, if the selected text is fully convertible to the encoding of
the locale
• STRING, if the selected text is fully convertible to STRING
_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, the
encoding of the locale, STRING, TEXT, UTF8_STRING, 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, TextField 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, the encoding of the locale,
STRING, TEXT and UTF8_STRING.
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, TextField 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, TextField chooses a
requested target from the available targets in the following order of preference:
1. TEXT
1. UTF8_STRING
2. COMPOUND_TEXT
3. The encoding of the locale
4. STRING
If the encoding of the locale is not present in the list of available targets, TextField chooses a
requested target from the available targets in the following order of preference:
1. UTF8_STRING
1. COMPOUND_TEXT
2. STRING
Classes
TextField widget inherits behavior, resources, and traits from Core and Primitive.
The class pointer is xmTextFieldWidgetClass.
The class name is XmTextField.
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 lower case or upper case, 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), XmCreateTextField(3), XmFontList(3), XmFontListAppendEntry(3), XmPrimitive(3),
XmTextFieldClearSelection(3), XmTextFieldCopy(3), XmTextFieldCopyLink(3), XmTextFieldCut(3),
XmTextFieldGetBaseline(3), XmTextFieldGetEditable(3), XmTextFieldGetInsertionPosition(3),
XmTextFieldGetLastPosition(3), XmTextFieldGetMaxLength(3), XmTextFieldGetSelection(3),
XmTextFieldGetSelectionPosition(3), XmTextFieldGetSelectionWcs(3), XmTextFieldGetString(3),
XmTextFieldGetStringWcs(3), XmTextFieldGetSubstring(3), XmTextFieldGetSubstringWcs(3),
XmTextFieldInsert(3), XmTextFieldInsertWcs(3), XmTextFieldPaste(3), XmTextFieldPasteLink(3),
XmTextFieldPosToXY(3), XmTextFieldRemove(3), XmTextFieldReplace(3), XmTextFieldReplaceWcs(3),
XmTextFieldSetAddMode(3), XmTextFieldSetEditable(3), XmTextFieldSetHighlight(3),
XmTextFieldSetInsertionPosition(3), XmTextFieldSetMaxLength(3), XmTextFieldSetSelection(3),
XmTextFieldSetString(3), XmTextFieldSetStringWcs(3), XmTextFieldShowPosition(3), XmTextFieldXYToPos(3),
XmVaCreateTextField(3), and XmVaCreateManagedTextField(3).
XmTextField(3)