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 XmTextSetMaxLength(Xm)         6 January 1993         XmTextSetMaxLength(Xm)


 Name

    XmTextSetMaxLength - a Text function that sets the value of the current
    maximum allowable length of a text string entered from the keyboard

 Syntax


    #include <Xm/Text.h>

    void XmTextSetMaxLength (widget, max_length)
    Widget widget;
    int max_length;


 Description

    XmTextSetMaxLength sets the value of the current maximum allowable length
    of the text string in the Text widget. The maximum allowable length
    prevents the user from entering a text string from the keyboard that is
    larger than this limit. Strings that are entered using the XmNvalue (or
    XmNvalueWcs) resource, or the XmTextSetString (or XmTextSetStringWcs)
    function ignore this resource.

    widget  Specifies the Text widget ID

    maxlength
            Specifies the maximum allowable length of the text string

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

 See also

    XmText(Xm), XmTextSetString(Xm) and XmTextSetStringWcs(Xm).
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