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From: mago@delphi.it (Giovanni Beani)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: motif XmString to char
Message-ID: <9010181152.AA00428@lucca.delphi>
Date: 18 Oct 90 11:52:59 GMT
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In some article, i2unix!lamont!sohara (suzanne ohara) writes:

>I am learning to program with motif and have run into what
>seems a very simple problem. I have not been able to find
>a way to convert a motif XmString to a regular C char string.
>Is this possible? I would appreciate any suggestions.

>Thank you,
>Suzanne O'Hara

This is a way to do that:


----- Begin Included Message -----

static char *xm_string_to_string(cs)
XmString cs;
{
  XmStringContext context;
  XmStringCharSet charset;
  XmStringDirection direction;
  Boolean separator;
  static char *primitive_string;

  XmStringInitContext (&context,cs);
  XmStringGetNextSegment (context,&primitive_string,
              &charset,&direction,&separator);
  XmStringFreeContext (context);
  return ((char *) primitive_string);
}

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Bye Bye
	Giovanni

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