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DwtToggleButtonGadgetCreate(3Dwt)

Name

DwtToggleButtonGadgetCreate − Creates a toggle button gadget. 

Syntax

Widget DwtToggleButtonGadgetCreate (parent_widget, name,
                                    override_arglist,
                                    override_argcount)
     Widget parent_widget;
     char *name;
     ArgList override_arglist;
     int override_argcount;

Arguments

parent_widget
Specifies the parent widget ID.

nameSpecifies the name of the created widget. 

override_arglist
Specifies the application override argument list.

override_argcount
Specifies the number of attributes in the application override argument list (override_arglist). 

Description

The DwtToggleButtonGadgetCreate function creates an instance of the toggle button gadget and returns its associated gadget ID.  A toggle button gadget is similar in appearance and semantics to a toggle button widget.  Like all gadgets, DwtToggleButtonGadgetCreate does not have a window but uses the window of the closest antecedent widget.  Thus, the antecedent widget provides all event dispatching for the gadget.  This currently restricts gadgets to being descendents of menu or dialog class (or subclass) widgets. 

Inherited Attributes

Attribute Name Data Type Default
Rectangle Attributes

DwtNx Position Determined by the geometry manager
DwtNy Position Determined by the geometry manager
DwtNwidth Dimension The width of the label plus margins
DwtNheight Dimension The height of the label plus margins
DwtNborderWidth Dimension zero
DwtNsensitive Boolean True
DwtNancestorSensitive Boolean The bitwise AND of the parent widget’s DwtNsensitive and DwtNancestorSensitive attributes
Label Attributes

DwtNlabel DwtCompString Widget name
DwtNalignment unsigned char DwtAlignmentCenter
DwtNdirectionRToL Boolean False
DwtNhelpCallback DwtCallbackPtr NULL

Widget-Specific Attributes

Attribute Name Data Type Default
DwtNshape unsigned char DwtRectangular
DwtNvalue Boolean False
DwtNvisibleWhenOff Boolean True
DwtNvalueChangedCallback DwtCallbackPtr NULL
DwtNbuttonAccelerator char * NULL
DwtNacceleratorText DwtCompString NULL

DwtNshapeSpecifies the toggle button indicator shape.  You can pass DwtRectangular or DwtOval. 

DwtNvalueSpecifies a boolean value that, when False, indicates the button state is off.  If True, the button state is on. 

DwtNvisibleWhenOff
Specifies a boolean value that, when True, indicates that the toggle button is visible when in the off state. 

DwtNvalueChangedCallback
Specifies the callback function or functions called when the toggle button value was changed. For this callback, the reason is DwtCRValueChanged. 

DwtNbuttonAccelerator
Sets an accelerator on a toggle button widget. This is the same as the DwtNtranslations core attribute except that only the left side of the table is to be passed as a character string, not compiled.  The application is responsible for calling XtInstallAllAccelerators to install the accelerator where the application needs it. 

DwtNacceleratorText
Specifies the compound-string text displayed for the accelerator.

Return Values

This function returns the ID of the created widget. 

Callback Information

The following structure is returned to your callback:

typedef struct {
int reason;
XEvent *event;
int value;
} DwtTogglebuttonCallbackStruct;

The reason member is set to a constant that represents the reason why this callback was invoked.  For this callback, the reason member can be set to:

DwtCRValueChanged The user activated the toggle button to change state. 
DwtCRHelpRequested The user selected Help. 

The event member is a pointer to the Xlib structure XEvent, which describes the event that generated this callback.  This structure is a union of the individual structures declared for each event type.  For information on XEvent and event processing, see the Guide to the Xlib Library: C Language Binding. 

The value member is set to the toggle button’s current state when the callback occurred, either True (on) or False (off). 

See Also

Guide to the XUI Toolkit: C Language Binding
Guide to the XUI Toolkit Intrinsics: C Language Binding

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