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diff --git a/tk8.6/doc/GetClrmap.3 b/tk8.6/doc/GetClrmap.3 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9e6da12 --- /dev/null +++ b/tk8.6/doc/GetClrmap.3 @@ -0,0 +1,77 @@ +'\" +'\" Copyright (c) 1994 The Regents of the University of California. +'\" Copyright (c) 1994-1996 Sun Microsystems, Inc. +'\" +'\" See the file "license.terms" for information on usage and redistribution +'\" of this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES. +'\" +.TH Tk_GetColormap 3 4.0 Tk "Tk Library Procedures" +.so man.macros +.BS +.SH NAME +Tk_GetColormap, Tk_PreserveColormap, Tk_FreeColormap \- allocate and free colormaps +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +\fB#include <tk.h>\fR +.sp +Colormap +\fBTk_GetColormap(\fIinterp, tkwin, string\fB)\fR +.sp +\fBTk_PreserveColormap(\fIdisplay, colormap\fB)\fR +.sp +\fBTk_FreeColormap(\fIdisplay, colormap\fB)\fR +.SH ARGUMENTS +.AS "Colormap" colormap +.AP Tcl_Interp *interp in +Interpreter to use for error reporting. +.AP Tk_Window tkwin in +Token for window in which colormap will be used. +.AP "const char" *string in +Selects a colormap: either \fBnew\fR or the name of a window +with the same screen and visual as \fItkwin\fR. +.AP Display *display in +Display for which \fIcolormap\fR was allocated. +.AP Colormap colormap in +Colormap to free or preserve; must have been returned by a previous +call to \fBTk_GetColormap\fR or \fBTk_GetVisual\fR. +.BE +.SH DESCRIPTION +.PP +These procedures are used to manage colormaps. +\fBTk_GetColormap\fR returns a colormap suitable for use in \fItkwin\fR. +If its \fIstring\fR argument is \fBnew\fR then a new colormap is +created; otherwise \fIstring\fR must be the name of another window +with the same screen and visual as \fItkwin\fR, and the colormap from that +window is returned. +If \fIstring\fR does not make sense, or if it refers to a window on +a different screen from \fItkwin\fR or with +a different visual than \fItkwin\fR, then \fBTk_GetColormap\fR returns +\fBNone\fR and leaves an error message in \fIinterp\fR's result. +.PP +\fBTk_PreserveColormap\fR increases the internal reference count for a +colormap previously returned by \fBTk_GetColormap\fR, which allows the +colormap to be stored in several locations without knowing which order +they will be released. +.PP +\fBTk_FreeColormap\fR should be called when a colormap returned by +\fBTk_GetColormap\fR is no longer needed. +Tk maintains a reference count for each colormap returned by +\fBTk_GetColormap\fR, so there should eventually be one call to +\fBTk_FreeColormap\fR for each call to \fBTk_GetColormap\fR and each +call to \fBTk_PreserveColormap\fR. +When a colormap's reference count becomes zero, Tk releases the +X colormap. +.PP +\fBTk_GetVisual\fR and \fBTk_GetColormap\fR work together, in that +a new colormap created by \fBTk_GetVisual\fR may later be returned +by \fBTk_GetColormap\fR. +The reference counting mechanism for colormaps includes both procedures, +so callers of \fBTk_GetVisual\fR must also call \fBTk_FreeColormap\fR +to release the colormap. +If \fBTk_GetColormap\fR is called with a \fIstring\fR value of +\fBnew\fR then the resulting colormap will never +be returned by \fBTk_GetVisual\fR; however, it can be used in other +windows by calling \fBTk_GetColormap\fR with the original window's +name as \fIstring\fR. +.SH KEYWORDS +colormap, visual |