MrmRegisterClass(3)

NAME
MrmRegisterClass — Saves the information needed for MRM to access the widget creation function for user-defined widgets

SYNOPSIS

#include <Mrm/MrmPublic.h>
Cardinal MrmRegisterClass(
MrmType class_code,
String class_name,
String create_name,
Widget (*create_proc) (),
WidgetClass class_record);

DESCRIPTION

The MrmRegisterClass function allows MRM to access user-defined widget classes. This function registers the necessary information for MRM to create widgets of this class. You must call MrmRegisterClass prior to fetching any user-defined class widget.

MrmRegisterClass saves the information needed to access the widget creation function and to do type conversion of argument lists by using the information in MRM databases.

class_code
    This argument is ignored; it is present for compatibility with previous releases.

class_name
    This argument is ignored; it is present for compatibility with previous releases.

create_name
    Specifies the case-sensitive name of the low-level widget creation function for the class. An example from the Motif Toolkit is XmCreateLabel. Arguments are parent_widget, name, override_arglist, and override_argcount.

    For user-defined widgets, create_name is the creation procedure in the UIL that defines this widget.

create_proc
    Specifies the address of the creation function that you named in create_name.

class_record
    Specifies a pointer to the class record.

RETURN

This function returns one of the following status return constants:

MrmSUCCESS
    The function executed successfully.

MrmFAILURE
    The function failed.