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Volume 6A: Motif Programming Manual
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Volume 6A: Motif Programming Manual

by David Brennan, Dan Heller, Paula Ferguson
September 1993
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1014 pages
28h 26m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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useful when you want to display a compound string that contains text in several different styles, as we'll show you in
an example later in this section.
Although automatic string conversion can handle the creation of most compound strings, there are still a few
situations when you need to define compound strings explicitly. If you want to declare an exported compound string
variable or override one of the properties of a compound string, you need to use the compound string literal syntax.
An explicit compound string definition takes the following form:
compound_string (string_expression,
[, right_to_left = boolean_expression ]
[, separate = boolean_expression ] )
A compound_string literal begins with the compound_string keyword and is followed by a single or
double−quoted string and the optional properties. You can set the writing direction of the compound string with the
right_to_left property; the default value of this property is taken from the writing direction string's character
set. The separate property specifies whether or not a separator component is added to the end of the compound
string. The default value is false, which means that a separator is not added.
Unlike with NULL−terminated strings, placing a newline character in a compound string does not produce a
multi−line string. A line break in a compound string is indicated by a separator component, which you add by setting
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