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From: jordan@morgan.COM (Jordan Hayes)
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Subject: Re: motif XmString to char
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Date: 19 Oct 90 16:23:14 GMT
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Suzanne O'Hara <sohara@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu> asks:

	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.

To which David Brooks <dbrooks@osf.org> writes:

	If you are interested only in left-to-right segments, you can use:

	result = XmStringGetLtoR(cstring, charset, &charp);

I have always seen this defined as

Boolean
XmStringGetLtoR(string, charset, text)
	XmString	string;
	XmStringCharSet	charset;
	char		**text;

My understanding of XmStringGetLtoR is used to search `string' to see
if there is a segment that matches `text' and if so, returns TRUE.  I
believe she wanted the "opposite" of XmStringCreate ... if this (when
*text == (char *)NULL) *is* the equivalent of what I posted yesterday,
please document it better!

/jordan