XmTextSetTopCharacter(3)

XmTextSetTopCharacter3

A text function that sets the position of the first character displayed

Usage

#include <Xm/Text.h>
void XmTextSetTopCharacter(
Widget widget,
XmTextPosition top_character);

Overview

XmTextSetTopCharacter sets the position of the text at the top of the Text widget. If the XmNeditMode is XmMULTI_LINE_EDIT, the line of text that contains top_character is displayed at the top of the widget without the text shifting left or right. If the edit mode is XmSINGLE_LINE_EDIT, the text moves horizontally so that top_character is the first character displayed.

widget

Specifies the Text widget ID

top_character

Specifies the position in the text to display at the top of the widget. This is an integer number of characters from the beginning of the text buffer. The first character position is 0 (zero).

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

Releases

7 releases since Debian 8 (Jessie); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 8–13
  2. Arch

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