XmGetSecondaryResourceData(3)XmGetSecondaryResourceData(3)NAMEXmGetSecondaryResourceData — A function that provides access to sec‐
ondary widget resource data
SYNOPSIS
#include <Xm/Xm.h>
Cardinal XmGetSecondaryResourceData(
WidgetClass widget_class,
XmSecondaryResourceData **secondary_data_return);
DESCRIPTION
Some Motif widget classes (such as Gadget, Text, and VendorShell) have
resources that are not accessible through the functions XtGetRe‐
sourceList and XtGetConstraintResourceList. In order to retrieve the
descriptions of these resources, an application must use XmGetSec‐
ondaryResourceData.
When a widget class has such resources, this function provides descrip‐
tions of the resources in one or more data structures. XmGetSec‐
ondaryResourceData takes a widget class argument and returns the number
of these data structures associated with the widget class. If the
return value is greater than 0 (zero), the function allocates and fills
an array of pointers to the corresponding data structures. It returns
this array at the address that is the value of the sec‐
ondary_data_return argument.
The type XmSecondaryResourceData is a pointer to a structure with two
members that are useful to an application: resources, of type XtRe‐
sourceList, and num_resources, of type Cardinal. The resources member
is a list of the widget resources that are not accessible using Xt
functions. The num_resources member is the length of the resources
list.
If the return value is greater than 0 (zero), XmGetSecondaryResource‐
Data allocates memory that the application must free. Use XtFree to
free the resource list in each structure (the value of the resources
member), the structures themselves, and the array of pointers to the
structures (the array whose address is secondary_data_return).
widget_class
Specifies the widget class for which secondary resource data
is to be retrieved.
secondary_data_return
Specifies a pointer to an array of XmSecondaryResourceData
pointers to be returned by this function. If the widget
class has no secondary resource data, for example, if the
value returned by the function is 0 (zero), the function
returns no meaningful value for this argument.
RETURN
Returns the number of secondary resource data structures associated
with this widget class.
EXAMPLE
The following example uses XmGetSecondaryResourceData to print the
names of the secondary resources of the Motif Text widget and then
frees the data allocated by the function:
XmSecondaryResourceData * block_array;
Cardinal num_blocks, i, j;
if (num_blocks = XmGetSecondaryResourceData (xmTextWidgetClass,
&block_array)) {
for (i = 0; i < num_blocks; i++) {
for (j = 0; j < block_array[i]->num_resources; j++) {
printf("%s\n", block_array[i]->resources[j].resource_name);
}
XtFree((char*)block_array[i]->resources);
XtFree((char*)block_array[i]);
}
XtFree((char*)block_array);
}
XmGetSecondaryResourceData(3)
