SYNTAX

       Widget XtCreateWidget(String name, WidgetClass widget_class, Widget
              parent, ArgList args, Cardinal num_args);

       Widget XtVaCreateWidget(String name, WidgetClass widget_class, Widget
              parent, ...);

       Widget XtCreateManagedWidget(String name, WidgetClass widget_class,
              Widget parent, ArgList args, Cardinal num_args);

       Widget XtVaCreateManagedWidget(String name, WidgetClass widget_class,
              Widget parent, ...);

       void XtDestroyWidget(Widget w);

ARGUMENTS

       args      Specifies the argument list to override the resource
                 defaults.

       name      Specifies the resource name for the created widget, which is
                 used for retrieving resources and, for that reason, should
                 not be the same as any other widget that is a child of same
                 parent.

       num_args  Specifies the number of arguments in the argument list.

       parent    Specifies the parent widget.

       w         Specifies the widget.

       widget_class
                 Specifies the widget class pointer for the created widget.

       ...       Specifies the variable argument list to override the resource
                 defaults.

DESCRIPTION

       The XtCreateWidget function performs much of the boilerplate operations
       of widget creation:

       o    Checks to see if the class_initialize procedure has been called
            for this class and for all superclasses and, if not, calls those
            necessary in a superclass-to-subclass order.

       o    Allocates memory for the widget instance.

       o    If the parent is a subclass of constraintWidgetClass, it allocates
            memory for the parent's constraints and stores the address of this
            memory into the constraints field.

       o    Initializes the core nonresource data fields (for example, parent

       o    If the parent is a subclass of compositeWidgetClass, it puts the
            widget into its parent's children list by calling its parent's
            insert_child procedure.  For further information, see Section 3.5.

       o    If the parent is a subclass of constraintWidgetClass, it calls the
            constraint initialize procedures, starting at constraintWidget-
            Class on down to the parent's constraint initialize procedure.

       Note that you can determine the number of arguments in an argument list
       by using the XtNumber macro.  For further information, see Section
       11.1.

       The XtCreateManagedWidget function is a convenience routine that calls
       XtCreateWidget and XtManageChild.

       The XtDestroyWidget function provides the only method of destroying a
       widget, including widgets that need to destroy themselves.  It can be
       called at any time, including from an application callback routine of
       the widget being destroyed.  This requires a two-phase destroy process
       in order to avoid dangling references to destroyed widgets.

       In phase one, XtDestroyWidget performs the following:

       o    If the being_destroyed field of the widget is True, it returns
            immediately.

       o    Recursively descends the widget tree and sets the being_destroyed
            field to True for the widget and all children.

       o    Adds the widget to a list of widgets (the destroy list) that
            should be destroyed when it is safe to do so.

       Entries on the destroy list satisfy the invariant that if w2 occurs
       after w1 on the destroy list then w2 is not a descendent of w1.  (A
       descendant refers to both normal and pop-up children.)

       Phase two occurs when all procedures that should execute as a result of
       the current event have been called (including all procedures registered
       with the event and translation managers), that is, when the current
       invocation of XtDispatchEvent is about to return or immediately if not
       in XtDispatchEvent.

       In phase two, XtDestroyWidget performs the following on each entry in
       the destroy list:

       o    Calls the destroy callback procedures registered on the widget
            (and all descendants) in post-order (it calls children callbacks
            before parent callbacks).

       o    If the widget's parent is a subclass of compositeWidgetClass and
            if the parent is not being destroyed, it calls XtUnmanageChild on

       o    Calls XDestroyWindow if the widget is realized (that is, has an X
            window).  The server recursively destroys all descendant windows.

       o    Recursively descends the tree and deallocates all pop-up widgets,
            constraint records, callback lists and, if the widget is a sub-
            class of compositeWidgetClass, children.

SEE ALSO

       XtAppCreateShell(3Xt), XtCreatePopupShell(3Xt)
       X Toolkit Intrinsics - C Language Interface
       Xlib - C Language X Interface



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