XmbTextListToTextProperty(3X11)XmbTextListToTextProperty(3X11)NAME
XmbTextListToTextProperty, XwcTextListToTextProperty, XmbTextProperty‐
ToTextList, XwcTextPropertyToTextList, XwcFreeStringList, XDefault‐
String - convert text lists and text property structures
SYNOPSIS
int XmbTextListToTextProperty(display, list, count, style,
text_prop_return)
Display *display;
char **list;
int count;
XICCEncodingStyle style;
XTextProperty *text_prop_return;
int XwcTextListToTextProperty(display, list, count, style,
text_prop_return)
Display *display;
wchar_t **list;
int count;
XICCEncodingStyle style;
XTextProperty *text_prop_return;
int XmbTextPropertyToTextList(display, text_prop, list_return,
count_return)
Display *display;
XTextProperty *text_prop;
char ***list_return;
int *count_return;
int XwcTextPropertyToTextList(display, text_prop, list_return,
count_return)
Display *display;
XTextProperty *text_prop;
wchar_t ***list_return;
int *count_return;
void XwcFreeStringList(list)
wchar_t **list;
char *XDefaultString()ARGUMENTS
Specifies the connection to the X server. Specifies a list of null-
terminated character strings. Specifies the number of strings speci‐
fied. Specifies the manner in which the property is encoded. Returns
the XTextProperty structure. Specifies the XTextProperty structure to
be used. Returns a list of null-terminated character strings. Returns
the number of strings. Specifies the list of strings to be freed.
DESCRIPTION
The XmbTextListToTextProperty and XwcTextListToTextProperty functions
set the specified XTextProperty value to a set of null-separated ele‐
ments representing the concatenation of the specified list of null-ter‐
minated text strings. A final terminating null is stored at the end of
the value field of text_prop_return but is not included in the nitems
member.
The functions set the encoding field of text_prop_return to an Atom for
the specified display naming the encoding determined by the specified
style and convert the specified text list to this encoding for storage
in the text_prop_return value field. If the style XStringStyle or XCom‐
poundTextStyle is specified, this encoding is “STRING” or “COM‐
POUND_TEXT”, respectively. If the style XTextStyle is specified, this
encoding is the encoding of the current locale. If the style XStdICC‐
TextStyle is specified, this encoding is “STRING” if the text is fully
convertible to STRING, else “COMPOUND_TEXT”.
If insufficient memory is available for the new value string, the func‐
tions return XNoMemory. If the current locale is not supported, the
functions return XLocaleNotSupported. In both of these error cases, the
functions do not set text_prop_return.
To determine if the functions are guaranteed not to return XLocaleNot‐
Supported, use XSupportsLocale.
If the supplied text is not fully convertible to the specified encod‐
ing, the functions return the number of unconvertible characters. Each
unconvertible character is converted to an implementation-defined and
encoding-specific default string. Otherwise, the functions return Suc‐
cess. Note that full convertibility to all styles except XStringStyle
is guaranteed.
To free the storage for the value field, use XFree.
The XmbTextPropertyToTextList and XwcTextPropertyToTextList functions
return a list of text strings in the current locale representing the
null-separated elements of the specified XTextProperty structure. The
data in text_prop must be format 8.
Multiple elements of the property (for example, the strings in a dis‐
joint text selection) are separated by a null byte. The contents of the
property are not required to be null-terminated; any terminating null
should not be included in text_prop.nitems.
If insufficient memory is available for the list and its elements, Xmb‐
TextPropertyToTextList and XwcTextPropertyToTextList return XNoMemory.
If the current locale is not supported, the functions return XLo‐
caleNotSupported. Otherwise, if the encoding field of text_prop is not
convertible to the encoding of the current locale, the functions return
XConverterNotFound. For supported locales, existence of a converter
from COMPOUND_TEXT, STRING or the encoding of the current locale is
guaranteed if XSupportsLocale returns True for the current locale (but
the actual text may contain unconvertible characters). Conversion of
other encodings is implementation dependent. In all of these error
cases, the functions do not set any return values.
Otherwise, XmbTextPropertyToTextList and XwcTextPropertyToTextList
return the list of null-terminated text strings to list_return and the
number of text strings to count_return.
If the value field of text_prop is not fully convertible to the encod‐
ing of the current locale, the functions return the number of uncon‐
vertible characters. Each unconvertible character is converted to a
string in the current locale that is specific to the current locale. To
obtain the value of this string, use XDefaultString. Otherwise, Xmb‐
TextPropertyToTextList and XwcTextPropertyToTextList return Success.
To free the storage for the list and its contents returned by Xmb‐
TextPropertyToTextList, use XFreeStringList. To free the storage for
the list and its contents returned by XwcTextPropertyToTextList, use
XwcFreeStringList.
The XwcFreeStringList function frees memory allocated by XwcTextProper‐
tyToTextList.
The XDefaultString function returns the default string used by Xlib for
text conversion (for example, in XmbTextPropertyToTextList). The
default string is the string in the current locale that is output when
an unconvertible character is found during text conversion. If the
string returned by XDefaultString is the empty string (""), no charac‐
ter is output in the converted text. XDefaultString does not return
NULL.
The string returned by XDefaultString is independent of the default
string for text drawing; see XCreateFontSet to obtain the default
string for an XFontSet.
The behavior when an invalid codepoint is supplied to any Xlib function
is undefined.
The returned string is null-terminated. It is owned by Xlib and should
not be modified or freed by the client. It may be freed after the cur‐
rent locale is changed. Until freed, it will not be modified by Xlib.
STRUCTURES
The XTextProperty structure contains:
typedef struct {
unsigned char *value; /* property data */
Atom encoding; /* type of property */
int format; /* 8, 16, or 32 */
unsigned long nitems; /* number of items in value */ }
XTextProperty;
The XICCEncodingStyle structure contains:
#define XNoMemory -1
#define XLocaleNotSupported -2
#define XConverterNotFound -3
typedef enum {
XStringStyle, /* STRING */
XCompoundTextStyle, /* COMPOUND_TEXT */
XTextStyle, /* text in owner's encoding
(current locale) */
XStdICCTextStyle /* STRING, else COMPOUND_TEXT */ } XIC‐
CEncodingStyle;
RESTRICTIONS
STRING conversion (XStringStyle) is not supported for interclient com‐
munication under the ja_JP.SJIS locale. This is because the X Library
assumes 7-bit STRING data to be in ISO8859-1:GL format whereas the
ja_JP.SJIS locale assumes the data to be in JISX0201.1976-0:GL format.
SEE ALSOXSetTextProperty(3X11), XStringListToTextProperty(3X11)
Xlib -- C Language X Interface
XmbTextListToTextProperty(3X11)
