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XtCreateWidget(3)


NAME

       XtCreateWidget, XtVaCreateWidget, XtCreateManagedWidget, XtVaCreate-
       ManagedWidget, XtDestroyWidget - create and destroy widgets


SYNTAX

       #include <X11/Intrinsic.h>

       Widget XtCreateWidget(const char *name, WidgetClass widget_class, Wid-
              get parent, ArgList args, Cardinal num_args);

       Widget XtVaCreateWidget(const char *name, WidgetClass widget_class,
              Widget parent, ...);

       Widget XtCreateManagedWidget(const char *name, WidgetClass wid-
              get_class, Widget parent, ArgList args, Cardinal num_args);

       Widget XtVaCreateManagedWidget(const char *name, WidgetClass wid-
              get_class, Widget parent, ...);

       void XtDestroyWidget(Widget w);


ARGUMENTS

       args      Specifies the argument list to override the resource
                 defaults.

       name      Specifies the resource name for the created widget, which is
                 used for retrieving resources and, for that reason, should
                 not be the same as any other widget that is a child of same
                 parent.

       num_args  Specifies the number of arguments in the argument list.

       parent    Specifies the parent widget.

       w         Specifies the widget.

       widget_class
                 Specifies the widget class pointer for the created widget.

       ...       Specifies the variable argument list to override the resource
                 defaults.


DESCRIPTION

       The XtCreateWidget function performs much of the boilerplate operations
       of widget creation:

       o    Checks to see if the class_initialize procedure has been called
            for this class and for all superclasses and, if not, calls those
            necessary in a superclass-to-subclass order.

       o    Allocates memory for the widget instance.

       o    If the parent is a subclass of constraintWidgetClass, it allocates
            memory for the parent's constraints and stores the address of this
            memory into the constraints field.

       o    Initializes the core nonresource data fields (for example, parent
            and visible).

       o    Initializes the resource fields (for example, background_pixel) by
            using the resource lists specified for this class and all super-
            classes.

       o    If the parent is a subclass of constraintWidgetClass, it initial-
            izes the resource fields of the constraints record by using the
            constraint resource list specified for the parent's class and all
            superclasses up to constraintWidgetClass.

       o    Calls the initialize procedures for the widget by starting at the
            Core initialize procedure on down to the widget's initialize pro-
            cedure.

       o    If the parent is a subclass of compositeWidgetClass, it puts the
            widget into its parent's children list by calling its parent's
            insert_child procedure.  For further information, see Section 3.5.

       o    If the parent is a subclass of constraintWidgetClass, it calls the
            constraint initialize procedures, starting at constraintWidget-
            Class on down to the parent's constraint initialize procedure.

       Note that you can determine the number of arguments in an argument list
       by using the XtNumber macro.  For further information, see Section
       11.1.

       The XtCreateManagedWidget function is a convenience routine that calls
       XtCreateWidget and XtManageChild.

       The XtDestroyWidget function provides the only method of destroying a
       widget, including widgets that need to destroy themselves.  It can be
       called at any time, including from an application callback routine of
       the widget being destroyed.  This requires a two-phase destroy process
       in order to avoid dangling references to destroyed widgets.

       In phase one, XtDestroyWidget performs the following:

       o    If the being_destroyed field of the widget is True, it returns
            immediately.

       o    Recursively descends the widget tree and sets the being_destroyed
            field to True for the widget and all children.

       o    Adds the widget to a list of widgets (the destroy list) that
            should be destroyed when it is safe to do so.

       Entries on the destroy list satisfy the invariant that if w2 occurs
       after w1 on the destroy list then w2 is not a descendent of w1.  (A
       descendant refers to both normal and pop-up children.)

       Phase two occurs when all procedures that should execute as a result of
       the current event have been called (including all procedures registered
       with the event and translation managers), that is, when the current
       invocation of XtDispatchEvent is about to return or immediately if not
       in XtDispatchEvent.

       In phase two, XtDestroyWidget performs the following on each entry in
       the destroy list:

       o    Calls the destroy callback procedures registered on the widget
            (and all descendants) in post-order (it calls children callbacks
            before parent callbacks).

       o    If the widget's parent is a subclass of compositeWidgetClass and
            if the parent is not being destroyed, it calls XtUnmanageChild on
            the widget and then calls the widget's parent's delete_child pro-
            cedure (see Section 3.4).

       o    If the widget's parent is a subclass of constraintWidgetClass, it
            calls the constraint destroy procedure for the parent, then the
            parent's superclass, until finally it calls the constraint destroy
            procedure for constraintWidgetClass.

       o    Calls the destroy methods for the widget (and all descendants) in
            post-order.  For each such widget, it calls the destroy procedure
            declared in the widget class, then the destroy procedure declared
            in its superclass, until finally it calls the destroy procedure
            declared in the Core class record.

       o    Calls XDestroyWindow if the widget is realized (that is, has an X
            window).  The server recursively destroys all descendant windows.

       o    Recursively descends the tree and deallocates all pop-up widgets,
            constraint records, callback lists and, if the widget is a sub-
            class of compositeWidgetClass, children.


SEE ALSO

       XtAppCreateShell(3), XtCreatePopupShell(3)
       X Toolkit Intrinsics – C Language Interface
       Xlib - C Language X Interface



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