internStaticString

Finds or creates an atom corresponding to a given string.

Note that this function is identical to Atom.intern except that if a new gdk.Atom is created the string itself is used rather than a copy. This saves memory, but can only be used if the string will always exist. It can be used with statically allocated strings in the main program, but not with statically allocated memory in dynamically loaded modules, if you expect to ever unload the module again (e.g. do not use this function in GTK+ theme engines).

internStaticString
(
string atomName
)

Parameters

atomName string

a static string

Return Value

Type: GdkAtom

the atom corresponding to atom_name

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Since

2.10