XmbTextListToTextProperty(3)

NAME
XmbTextListToTextProperty, XwcTextListToTextProperty, Xutf8TextListToTextProperty, XmbTextPropertyToTextList, XwcTextPropertyToTextList, Xutf8TextPropertyToTextList, XwcFreeStringList, XDefaultString - convert text lists and text property structures

SYNTAX

int XmbTextListToTextProperty(Display *display, char **list, int count, XICCEncodingStyle style, XTextProperty *text_prop_return);

int XwcTextListToTextProperty(Display *display, wchar_t **list, int count, XICCEncodingStyle style, XTextProperty *text_prop_return);

int Xutf8TextListToTextProperty(Display *display, char **list, int count, XICCEncodingStyle style, XTextProperty *text_prop_return);

int XmbTextPropertyToTextList(Display *display, XTextProperty *text_prop, char ***list_return, int *count_return);

int XwcTextPropertyToTextList(Display *display, XTextProperty *text_prop, wchar_t ***list_return, int *count_return);

int Xutf8TextPropertyToTextList(Display *display, XTextProperty *text_prop, char ***list_return, int *count_return);

void XwcFreeStringList(wchar_t **list);

char *XDefaultString(void)

ARGUMENTS

display
    Specifies the connection to the X server.

list
    Specifies a list of null-terminated character strings.

count
    Specifies the number of strings specified.

style
    Specifies the manner in which the property is encoded.

text_prop_return
    Returns the structure.

text_prop
    Specifies the structure to be used.

list_return
    Returns a list of null-terminated character strings.

count_return
    Returns the number of strings.

list
    Specifies the list of strings to be freed.

DESCRIPTION
The and functions set the specified value to a set of null-separated elements representing the concatenation of the specified list of null-terminated text strings. The input text strings must be given in the current locale encoding (for and or in UTF-8 encoding (for

The functions set the encoding field of text_prop_return to an 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 or is specified, this encoding is ``STRING'' or ``COMPOUND_TEXT'', respectively. If the style is specified, this encoding is ``UTF8_STRING''. (This is an extension introduced by The XFree86 Project, Inc. in their 4.0.2 release. Its presence is indicated by the macro If the style is specified, this encoding is the encoding of the current locale. If the style is specified, this encoding is ``STRING'' if the text is fully convertible to STRING, else ``COMPOUND_TEXT''. A final terminating null byte is stored at the end of the value field of text_prop_return but is not included in the nitems member.

If insufficient memory is available for the new value string, the functions return If the current locale is not supported, the functions return In both of these error cases, the functions do not set text_prop_return.

To determine if the functions are guaranteed not to return use

If the supplied text is not fully convertible to the specified encoding, 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 Note that full convertibility to all styles except is guaranteed.

To free the storage for the value field, use

The and functions return a list of text strings representing the null-separated elements of the specified structure. The returned strings are encoded using the current locale encoding (for and or in UTF-8 (for The data in text_prop must be format 8.

Multiple elements of the property (for example, the strings in a disjoint 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, and return If the current locale is not supported, the functions return Otherwise, if the encoding field of text_prop is not convertible to the encoding of the current locale, the functions return For supported locales, existence of a converter from COMPOUND_TEXT, STRING, UTF8_STRING or the encoding of the current locale is guaranteed if returns 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, and 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 encoding of the current locale, the functions return the number of unconvertible 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 Otherwise, and return

To free the storage for the list and its contents returned by or use To free the storage for the list and its contents returned by use

The function frees memory allocated by

The function returns the default string used by Xlib for text conversion (for example, in 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 is the empty string (""), no character is output in the converted text. does not return NULL.

The string returned by is independent of the default string for text drawing; see to obtain the default string for an

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 current locale is changed. Until freed, it will not be modified by Xlib.

The functions and are extensions introduced by The XFree86 Project, Inc. in their 4.0.2 release. Their presence is indicated by the macro

STRUCTURES
The 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 structure contains:

#define |  | -1
#define |  | -2
#define |  | -3
typedef enum {
    XStringStyle,    /* STRING */
    XCompoundTextStyle,    /* COMPOUND_TEXT */
    XTextStyle,    /* text in owner's encoding (current locale) */
    XStdICCTextStyle,    /* STRING, else COMPOUND_TEXT */
    XUTF8StringStyle    /* UTF8_STRING */
} XICCEncodingStyle;

SEE ALSO
XSetTextProperty(3), XStringListToTextProperty(3)
Xlib - C Language X Interface