intern

Description:

public static Atom intern (string atom_name, bool only_if_exists)

Finds or creates an atom corresponding to a given string.

Parameters:

atom_name

a string.
only_if_exists

if true, GDK is allowed to not create a new atom, but just return gdk_none if the requested atom doesn’t already exists. Currently, the flag is ignored, since checking the existance of an atom is as expensive as creating it.

Returns:

the atom corresponding to atom_name.