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From: mikey@eukanuba.wpd.sgi.com (Mike Yang)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: Motif Style Question re. List boxes (AGAIN).
Keywords: Motif Style Guide.
Message-ID: <1990Sep17.162424.9704@relay.wpd.sgi.com>
Date: 17 Sep 90 16:24:24 GMT
References: <694@modulex.dk>
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In article <694@modulex.dk>, bni@modulex.dk (Bent Nielsen) writes:
|> 2.  Is the speed-search function a default function of this widget?
|>     (Incremental search through the list, when the user press one or
|>     more letters).
|> 
|> 3.  If not, how do I implement this function in my application, I can't
|>     find any Motif functions for incremental string compare. (If you
|>     have an example, please email me).

Incremental-search is not a standard part of list boxes.  To implement
one, you don't need XmString compare routines since presumably you're
getting the text via an XmText or XmText-like field which return
standard C strings.

So, use a valueChanged callback to get null-terminated strings, then
get the list of items from the list box and convert them to
null-terminated strings (e.g. the reverse of XmStringCreate).  Then,
use something like strncmp to do the comparison.

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                 Mike Yang        Silicon Graphics, Inc.
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