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xmtextshowposition(3x) [osf1 man page]

XmTextShowPosition(3X)													    XmTextShowPosition(3X)

NAME
XmTextShowPosition - A Text function that forces text at a given position to be displayed SYNOPSIS
#include <Xm/Text.h> void XmTextShowPosition (widget, position) Widget widget; XmTextPosition position; DESCRIPTION
XmTextShowPosition forces text at the specified position to be displayed. If the XmNautoShowCursorPosition resource is True, the applica- tion should also set the insert cursor to this position. Specifies the Text widget ID Specifies the character position to be displayed. This is an integer number of characters from the beginning of the text buffer. The first character position is 0. For a complete definition of Text and its associated resources, see XmText(3X). SEE ALSO
XmText(3X) XmTextShowPosition(3X)

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XmTextPosToXY(library call)											       XmTextPosToXY(library call)

NAME
XmTextPosToXY -- A Text function that accesses the x and y position of a character position SYNOPSIS
#include <Xm/Text.h> Boolean XmTextPosToXY( Widget widget, XmTextPosition position, Position *x, Position *y); DESCRIPTION
XmTextPosToXY accesses the x and y position, relative to the upper left corner of the Text widget, of a given character position in the text buffer. In the case of horizontal writing, the position is the origin of the character. In the case of vertical writing, the position is the verti- cal origin of the character. widget Specifies the Text widget ID position Specifies the character position in the text for which the x and y position is accessed. This is an integer number of characters from the beginning of the buffer. The first character position is 0 (zero). x Specifies the pointer in which the x position is returned. The returned position is the distance from the left side of the wid- get to the left border of the character. This value is meaningful only if the function returns True. y Specifies the pointer in which the y position is returned. The returned position is the distance from the top of the widget to the character's baseline. This value is meaningful only if the function returns True. For a complete definition of Text and its associated resources, see XmText(3). RETURN
This function returns True if the character position is displayed in the Text widget; otherwise, it returns False, and no x or y value is returned. RELATED
XmText(3). XmTextPosToXY(library call)
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