NAME
XcmsAllocColor, XcmsAllocNamedColor - allocate colors
SYNTAX
Status XcmsAllocColor(Display *display, Colormap colormap, XcmsColor
*color_in_out, XcmsColorFormat result_format);
Status XcmsAllocNamedColor(Display *display, Colormap colormap, char
*color_string, XcmsColor *color_screen_return, XcmsColor
*color_exact_return, XcmsColorFormat result_format);
ARGUMENTS
display Specifies the connection to the X server.
colormap Specifies the colormap.
color_exact_return
Returns the color specification parsed from the color string
or parsed from the corresponding string found in a color-name
database.
color_in_out
Specifies the color to allocate and returns the pixel and
color that is actually used in the colormap.
color_screen_return
Returns the pixel value of the color cell and color
specification that actually is stored for that cell.
color_string
Specifies the color string whose color definition structure
is to be returned.
result_format
Specifies the color format for the returned color
specification.
DESCRIPTION
The XcmsAllocColor function is similar to XAllocColor except the color
can be specified in any format. The XcmsAllocColor function ultimately
calls XAllocColor to allocate a read-only color cell (colormap entry)
with the specified color. XcmsAllocColor first converts the color
specified to an RGB value and then passes this to XAllocColor.
XcmsAllocColor returns the pixel value of the color cell and the color
specification actually allocated. This returned color specification is
the result of converting the RGB value returned by XAllocColor into the
format specified with the result_format argument. If there is no
interest in a returned color specification, unnecessary computation can
be bypassed if result_format is set to XcmsRGBFormat. The
corresponding colormap cell is read-only. If this routine returns
XcmsFailure, the color_in_out color specification is left unchanged.
XcmsAllocColor can generate a BadColor errors.
The XcmsAllocNamedColor function is similar to XAllocNamedColor except
that the color returned can be in any format specified. This function
ultimately calls XAllocColor to allocate a read-only color cell with
the color specified by a color string. The color string is parsed into
an XcmsColor structure (see XcmsLookupColor), converted to an RGB
value, and finally passed to XAllocColor. If the color name is not in
the Host Portable Character Encoding, the result is implementation-
dependent. Use of uppercase or lowercase does not matter.
This function returns both the color specification as a result of
parsing (exact specification) and the actual color specification stored
(screen specification). This screen specification is the result of
converting the RGB value returned by XAllocColor into the format
specified in result_format. If there is no interest in a returned
color specification, unnecessary computation can be bypassed if
result_format is set to XcmsRGBFormat. If color_screen_return and
color_exact_return point to the same structure, the pixel field will be
set correctly, but the color values are undefined.
XcmsAllocNamedColor can generate a BadColor errors.
DIAGNOSTICS
BadColor A value for a Colormap argument does not name a defined
Colormap.
SEE ALSO
XcmsQueryColor(3), XcmsStoreColor(3)
Xlib - C Language X Interface