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.TH XmTextFieldGetString 3X "" "" "" ""
.ds )H Hewlett-Packard Company
.ds ]W Motif Release 1.2: May 1992
.SH NAME
\fIXmTextFieldGetString\fP \- A TextField function that accesses the string value
.SH SYNOPSIS
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\&#include <Xm/TextF.h>
.sp \n(PDu
char * XmTextFieldGetString (\fBwidget\fI)
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	Widget	\fBwidget\fI;
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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\fIXmTextFieldGetString\fP
accesses the string value of the TextField widget.  The application
is responsible for freeing the storage associated with the string by
calling \fIXtFree\fP.
.IP "\fBwidget\fP"
Specifies the TextField widget ID
.PP 
For a complete definition of TextField and its associated resources, see
\fIXmTextField(3X)\fP.
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.ne 10
.SH RETURN VALUE
Returns a character pointer to the string value of the TextField widget.
Returns an empty string if the length of the TextField widget's string is 0.
.SH RELATED INFORMATION
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\fIXmTextField(3X)\fP and \fIXmTextFieldGetStringWcs(3X)\fP.
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