Method

GdkX11X11Displaytext_property_to_text_list

Declaration [src]

int
gdk_x11_display_text_property_to_text_list (
  GdkDisplay* display,
  const char* encoding,
  int format,
  const guchar* text,
  int length,
  char*** list
)

Description [src]

Convert a text string from the encoding as it is stored in a property into an array of strings in the encoding of the current locale. (The elements of the array represent the nul-separated elements of the original text string.).

Parameters

encoding

Type: const char*

A string representing the encoding. The most common values for this are “STRING”, or “COMPOUND_TEXT”. This is value used as the type for the property.

The data is owned by the caller of the method.
The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.
format

Type: int

The format of the property.

text

Type: const guchar*

The text data.

The data is owned by the caller of the method.
length

Type: int

The number of items to transform.

list

Type: char***

Location to store an array of strings in the encoding of the current locale. This array should be freed using gdk_x11_free_text_list().

The data is owned by the caller of the method.
The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.

Return value

Type: int

The number of strings stored in list, or 0, if the conversion failed.