Compound Strings and Resources

Compound strings are used to display all text except that in the Text and TextField widgets. The compound string is set into the appropriate widget resource so that it can be displayed. For example, the label for the PushButton widget is inherited from the Label widget, and the resource is XmNlabelString, which is of type XmString. This means that the resource expects a value that is a compound string. A compound string can be created with a program or defined in a resource file.