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'\" Department of Computer Science,
'\" Australian National University.
'\"
-'\" RCS: @(#) $Id: photo.n,v 1.16 2003/07/17 22:57:03 dkf Exp $
+'\" RCS: @(#) $Id: photo.n,v 1.17 2004/06/21 15:07:53 dkf Exp $
'\"
.so man.macros
.TH photo n 4.0 Tk "Tk Built-In Commands"
@@ -36,7 +36,6 @@ in regions where no image data has been supplied
or where it has been set transparent by the \fBtransparency set\fR
subcommand.
.VE 8.4
-
.SH "CREATING PHOTOS"
.PP
Like all images, photos are created using the \fBimage create\fR
@@ -93,7 +92,6 @@ Specifies the width of the image, in pixels. This option is useful
primarily in situations where the user wishes to build up the contents
of the image piece by piece. A value of zero (the default) allows the
image to expand or shrink horizontally to fit the data stored in it.
-
.SH "IMAGE COMMAND"
.PP
When a photo image is created, Tk also creates a new command
@@ -397,7 +395,6 @@ to use of the formats supported by the handler.
Note that not all image handlers may support writing transparency data
to a file, even where the target image format does.
.VE 8.4
-
.SH "COLOR ALLOCATION"
.PP
When a photo image is displayed in a window, the photo image code
@@ -427,12 +424,28 @@ each primary color to try to allocate. It can also be used to force
the image to be displayed in shades of gray, even on a color display,
by giving a single number rather than three numbers separated by
slashes.
-
.SH CREDITS
.PP
The photo image type was designed and implemented by Paul Mackerras,
based on his earlier photo widget and some suggestions from
John Ousterhout.
+.SH EXAMPLE
+Load an image from a file and tile it to the size of a window, which
+is useful for producing a tiled background:
+.CS
+# These lines should be called once
+\fBimage create photo\fR untiled -file "theFile.ppm"
+\fBimage create photo\fR tiled
+
+# These lines should be called whenever .someWidget changes
+# size; a <Configure> binding is useful here
+set width [winfo width .someWidget]
+set height [winfo height .someWidget]
+tiled \fBcopy\fR untiled \-to 0 0 $width $height \-shrink
+.CE
+
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+image(n)
.SH KEYWORDS
photo, image, color