#476 XmStringCreateLtoR has been deprecated.

[Dan Brown]

Per the linux man page, "This function is obsolete and
exists for compatibility with previous releases. It
is replaced by XmStringGenerate."

Xastir uses this in a bunch of different places.

[Curt Mills]

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XmStringGenerate is available in Motif 2.0 and later.
Does anything run an earlier Motif these days? If not, we
can switch. If so, we'll have to leave it as-is or check
for the availability of the XmStringGenerate function in
configure and do #ifdef's in the code based on that.

[Dan Brown]

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google finds:

http://www.softlab.ntua.gr/miscellaneous/faq/motif/part3/faq-doc-10.html

[Curt Mills]

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We could change configure.ac to add:

AC_CHECK_LIB([Xm], [XmStringGenerate])

then decide which to use in the code, or we could just
leave the code as-is until/unless XmStringCreateLtoR is
removed from Motif, at which point we can switch to
XmStringGenerate completely.

[Gerald J. Stueve]

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wx_gui.c has an implementation of XmStringGenerate that was introduced in revision 1.53 in 2007. As no one has complained, it would suggest that we could convert everyone over if the need arises. A macro could be added to make the change immediately if XmStringCreateLtoR disappeared.

define XmCreateLtoR(a, b) XmStringGenerate(a, b, XmCHARSET_TEXT, NULL)

[Tom Russo]

The Xastir project no longer uses sourceforge for issue tracking and I am closing all open issues (all of which are very old).

If this issue is still important, please open a new one on https://github.com/Xastir/Xastir.