XtCallConverter()XtCallConverter()NameXtCallConverter - explicitly invoke a "new-style" resource converter
and cache result.
Synopsis
Boolean XtCallConverter(display, converter, args, num_args, from,
to_in_out, cache_ref_return)
Display* display;
XtTypeConverter converter;
XrmValuePtr args;
Cardinal num_args;
XrmValuePtr from;
XrmValuePtr to_in_out;
XtCacheRef *cache_ref_return;
Inputs
display Specifies the display with which the conversion is to be
associated.
converter Specifies the new-style conversion procedure to be called.
args Specifies the additional conversion arguments needed to per‐
form the conversion, or NULL.
num_args Specifies the number of additional arguments.
from Specifies the source value to be converted.
to_in_out Specifies the address at which the converted value is to be
stored, and the number of bytes allocated at that address.
Outputs
to_in_out Returns (in the size field) the actual size of the converted
value.
cache_ref_return
Returns a conversion cache ID if the converter was registered
with reference counting. NULL may be passed for this argu‐
ment if the caller is not interested in reference counting of
cached conversion values.
Returns
True if the conversion was performed successfully, False otherwise.
Availability
Release 4 and later.
DescriptionXtCallConverter() converts the value from as appropriate for the con‐
version procedure converter by looking a converted value up in the
cache, or by invoking the converter with the display, args, num_args,
from, and to_in_out arguments.
to_in_out->addr should contain the address at which the converted value
is to be stored, and to_in_out->size should contain the number of bytes
allocated at that address.
See the "Background" section below for more details.
UsageXtConvertAndStore() is a higher level interface to resource conversion,
and is easier to use in most cases.
You do not often need, in applications or widgets, to convert between
resource types directly. Generally you can rely on the Intrinsics
resource management code to perform all necessary conversions for you.
When writing a resource converter, however, you may find that you need
to invoke another converter.
If XtCallConverter() returns an XtCacheRef value you must store it and
decrement the reference count (with XtAppReleaseCacheRefs()) when you
no longer need the converted value. The easiest way to do this is to
register the predefined callback XtCallbackReleaseCacheRef() on the
destroy callback of the widget or object that is using the converted
value.
BackgroundXtCallConverter() looks up the specified type converter in the applica‐
tion context associated with the display. If the converter was not
registered or was registered with cache type XtCacheAll or XtCacheBy‐
Display, XtCallConverter() looks in the conversion cache to see whether
this conversion procedure has been called with the specified arguments.
If so, XtCallConverter() checks the success status of the prior call.
If the conversion failed, XtCallConverter() returns False immediately;
otherwise it checks the size specified in the to_in_out argument.
If this size is greater than or equal to the size stored in the cache,
XtCallConverter():
· Copies the information stored in the cache to the location specified
by the to_in_out argument.
· Stores the cache size in to_in_out->size.
· Returns True.
If the size specified in the to_in_out argument is smaller than the size
stored in the cache, XtCallConverter() copies the cache size into to->size and
returns False. If the converter was registered with cache type XtCacheNone or
if no value was found in the conversion cache, XtCallConverter() calls the
converter and, if it was not registered with cache type XtCacheNone, enters
the result in the cache. XtCallConverter() then returns what the converter
returned.cache_ref_return specifies storage allocated by the caller in which an opaque
value will be stored. If the type converter has been registered with the
XtCacheRefCount modifier and if the value returned in cache_ref_return is non-
NULL, then the caller should store the cache_ref_return value in order to
decrement the reference count when the converted value is no longer required.cache_ref_return should be specified as NULL if the caller is unwilling or
unable to store the value.Structures
typedef struct {
unsigned int size;
XPointer addr;
} XrmValue, *XrmValuePtr;
See AlsoXtCallbackReleaseCacheRef(1), XtConvertAndStore(1), XtSetTypeCon‐
verter(1),
XtTypeConverter(2).
Xt - Resource Management XtCallConverter()
