redhat man page for xmtextgetstring

XmTextGetString(library call)											     XmTextGetString(library call)

NAME
       XmTextGetString -- A Text function that accesses the string value

SYNOPSIS
       #include <Xm/Text.h>
       char * XmTextGetString(
       Widget widget);

DESCRIPTION
       XmTextGetString	accesses  the  string value of the Text widget. The application is responsible for freeing the storage associated with the
       string by calling XtFree.

       widget	 Specifies the Text widget ID

       For a complete definition of Text and its associated resources, see XmText(3).

RETURN
       Returns a character pointer to the string value of the text widget.  This returned value is a copy of the value of the  XmNvalue  resource.
       Returns an empty string if the length of the Text widget's string is 0 (zero).

RELATED
       XmText(3) and XmTextGetStringWcs(3).

														     XmTextGetString(library call)