XmStringCreateSimple obsolete? What should I use instead?
[Last modified: Feb 95]

Answer: XmStringCreateSimple is obsolete. Use XmStringCreateLocalized instead.

Matthew B. Evans (Evans@EDFUA6.ctis.af.mil) writes:

We just upgraded from Motif 1.1 to 1.2.  When we went to compile, no problem,
but our XmStringCreateSimple() and XmStringGetLtoR() seemed to have problems.

As we found out, Motif 1.2 STRONGLY recommends to use the constant
XmFONTLIST_DEFAULT_TAG instead of XmSTRING_DEFAULT_CHARSET in all of the
XmStringXXX() functions, as XmSTRING_DEFAULT_CHARSET is maintained only for
compatibility (not a whole lot in my opinion).  I got this information from
Book 6B from O'Reilly.

You may want to take a look at this book if you can. Some XmString functions
are outdated and maintained only for compatibility, whereas some don't
function correctly when using XmSTRING_DEFAULT_CHARSET (from our in-depth
tests).

We have changed all our XmStringCreateSimple() to XmStringCreateLocalized()
(as suggested in book 6B) and changed all XmSTRING_DEFAULT_CHARSET to
XmFONTLIST_DEFAULT_TAG.

[Thanks to John West (jwest@nas.nasa.gov) for fixing a typo in the above.]

NOTE: All string answers in this FAQ now use XmStringCreateLocalized rather
than XmStringCreateSimple. The documentaton makes it clear that
XmStringCreateSimple is obsolete and is only kept for compatibility with Motif
1.1. New applications should not use this function since XmStringCreateSimple
may disappear in a subsequent Motif release. (Thanks to Miguel Angel Chamochin
(mangel@tid.es) for reminding me to fix this mess.)....ksall@cen.com.