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- .HS Tk_GetColor tkc
- .BS
- .SH NAME
- Tk_GetColor, Tk_GetColorByValue, Tk_NameOfColor Tk_FreeColor \- maintain database of colors
- .SH SYNOPSIS
- .nf
- \fB#include <tk.h>\fR
- .sp
- XColor *
- \fBTk_GetColor\fR(\fIinterp, tkwin, colorMap, nameId\fB)\fR
- .sp
- XColor *
- \fBTk_GetColorByValue\fR(\fIinterp, tkwin, colorMap, prefPtr\fB)\fR
- .sp
- char *
- \fBTk_NameOfColor(\fIcolorPtr\fB)\fR
- .sp
- \fBTk_FreeColor(\fIcolorPtr\fB)\fR
- .SH ARGUMENTS
- .AS "Tcl_Interp" *colorPtr
- .AP Tcl_Interp *interp in
- Interpreter to use for error reporting.
- .AP Tk_Window tkwin in
- Token for window in which color will be used.
- .AP Colormap colormap in
- Colormap from which to allocate color. If None, then the default
- colormap for \fItkwin\fR's screen is used.
- .AP Tk_Uid nameId in
- Textual description of desired color.
- .AP XColor *prefPtr in
- Indicates red, green, and blue intensities of desired
- color.
- .AP XColor *colorPtr in
- Pointer to X color information. Must have been allocated by previous
- call to \fBTk_GetColor\fR or \fBTk_GetColorByValue\fR, except when passed
- to \fBTk_NameOfColor\fR.
- .BE
-
- .SH DESCRIPTION
- .PP
- The \fBTk_GetColor\fR and \fBTk_GetColorByValue\fR procedures
- locate pixel values that may be used to render particular
- colors in the window given by \fItkwin\fR using the colormap
- given by \fIcolormap\fR. In \fBTk_GetColor\fR
- the desired color is specified with a Tk_Uid (\fInameId\fR), which
- may have any of the following forms:
- .TP 20
- \fIcolorname\fR
- Any of the valid textual names for a color defined in the
- server's color database file, such as \fBred\fR or \fBPeachPuff\fR.
- .TP 20
- \fB#\fIRGB\fR
- .TP 20
- \fB#\fIRRGGBB\fR
- .TP 20
- \fB#\fIRRRGGGBBB\fR
- .TP 20
- \fB#\fIRRRRGGGGBBBB\fR
- A numeric specification of the red, green, and blue intensities
- to use to display the color. Each \fIR\fR, \fIG\fR, or \fIB\fR
- represents a single hexadecimal digit. The four forms permit
- colors to be specified with 4-bit, 8-bit, 12-bit or 16-bit values.
- When fewer than 16 bits are provided for each color, they represent
- the most significant bits of the color. For example, #3a7 is the
- same as #3000a0007000.
- .LP
- In \fBTk_GetColorByValue\fR, the desired color is indicated with
- the \fIred\fR, \fIgreen\fR, and \fIblue\fR fields of the structure
- pointed to by \fIcolorPtr\fR.
- .PP
- If \fBTk_GetColor\fR or \fBTk_GetColorByValue\fR is successful
- in allocating the desired color, then it returns a pointer to
- an XColor structure; the structure indicates the exact intensities of
- the allocated color (which may differ slightly from those requested,
- depending on the limitations of the screen) and a pixel value
- from \fIcolormap\fR that may be used to draw in the color.
- If an error occurs in allocating a color then NULL is returned
- and an error message will be stored in \fIinterp->result\fR.
- .PP
- \fBTk_GetColor\fR and \fBTk_GetColorByValue\fR maintain a database
- of all the colors currently in use.
- If the same \fInameId\fR is requested multiple times from
- \fBTk_GetColor\fR (e.g. by different windows), or if the
- same intensities are requested multiple times from
- \fBTk_GetColorByValue\fR, then existing pixel values will
- be re-used. Re-using an existing pixel avoids any interaction
- with the X server, which makes the allocation much more
- efficient. For this reason, you should generally use
- \fBTk_GetColor\fR or \fBTk_GetColorByValue\fR
- instead of Xlib procedures like \fBXAllocColor\fR,
- \fBXAllocNamedColor\fR, or \fBXParseColor\fR.
- .PP
- Since different calls to \fBTk_GetColor\fR or \fBTk_GetColorByValue\fR
- may return the same shared
- pixel value, callers should never change the color of a pixel
- returned by the procedures.
- If you need to change a color value dynamically, you should use
- \fBXAllocColorCells\fR to allocate the pixel value for the color.
- .PP
- The procedure \fBTk_NameOfColor\fR is roughly the inverse of
- \fBTk_GetColor\fR. If its \fIcolorPtr\fR argument was created
- by \fBTk_GetColor\fR, then the return value is the \fInameId\fR
- string that was passed to \fBTk_GetColor\fR to create the
- color. If \fIcolorPtr\fR was created by a call to \fBTk_GetColorByValue\fR,
- or by any other mechanism, then the return value is a string
- that could be passed to \fBTk_GetColor\fR to return the same
- color. Note: the string returned by \fBTk_NameOfColor\fR is
- only guaranteed to persist until the next call to \fBTk_NameOfColor\fR.
- .PP
- When a pixel value returned by \fBTk_GetColor\fR or
- \fBTk_GetColorByValue\fR is no longer
- needed, \fBTk_FreeColor\fR should be called to release the color.
- There should be exactly one call to \fBTk_FreeColor\fR for
- each call to \fBTk_GetColor\fR or \fBTk_GetColorByValue\fR.
- When a pixel value is no longer in
- use anywhere (i.e. it has been freed as many times as it has been gotten)
- \fBTk_FreeColor\fR will release it to the X server and delete it from
- the database.
-
- .SH KEYWORDS
- color, intensity, pixel value
-