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.ds xT X Toolkit Intrinsics \- C Language Interface
.ds xW Athena X Widgets \- C Language X Toolkit Interface
.ds xL Xlib \- C Language X Interface
.ds xC Inter-Client Communication Conventions Manual
.TH XcmsAllocColor 3 "libX11 1.8.7" "X Version 11" "XLIB FUNCTIONS"
.SH NAME
XcmsAllocColor, XcmsAllocNamedColor \- allocate colors
.SH SYNTAX
.HP
Status XcmsAllocColor\^(\^Display *\fIdisplay\fP\^, Colormap \fIcolormap\fP\^,
XcmsColor *\fIcolor_in_out\fP\^, XcmsColorFormat \fIresult_format\fP\^);
.HP
Status XcmsAllocNamedColor\^(\^Display *\fIdisplay\fP\^, Colormap
\fIcolormap\fP\^, _Xconst char *\fIcolor_string\fP\^, XcmsColor
*\fIcolor_screen_return\fP\^, XcmsColor *\fIcolor_exact_return\fP\^, XcmsColorFormat \fIresult_format\fP\^);
.SH ARGUMENTS
.IP \fIdisplay\fP 1i
Specifies the connection to the X server.
.IP \fIcolormap\fP 1i
Specifies the colormap.
.IP \fIcolor_exact_return\fP 1i
Returns the color specification parsed from the color string
or parsed from the corresponding string found in a color-name database.
.IP \fIcolor_in_out\fP 1i
Specifies the color to allocate and returns the pixel and color
that is actually used in the colormap.
.IP \fIcolor_screen_return\fP 1i
Returns the pixel value of the color cell and color specification
that actually is stored for that cell.
.ds St \
.IP \fIcolor_string\fP 1i
Specifies the color string whose color definition structure is to be returned.
.IP \fIresult_format\fP 1i
Specifies the color format for the returned color specification.
.SH DESCRIPTION
The
.B XcmsAllocColor
function is similar to
.B XAllocColor
except the color can be specified in any format.
The
.B XcmsAllocColor
function ultimately calls
.B XAllocColor
to allocate a read-only color cell (colormap entry) with the specified color.
.B XcmsAllocColor
first converts the color specified
to an RGB value and then passes this to
.BR XAllocColor .
.B 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
.B 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
.BR XcmsRGBFormat .
The corresponding colormap cell is read-only.
If this routine returns
.BR XcmsFailure ,
the color_in_out color specification is left unchanged.
.LP
.B XcmsAllocColor
can generate a
.B BadColor
errors.
.LP
The
.B XcmsAllocNamedColor
function is similar to
.B XAllocNamedColor
except that the color returned can be in any format specified.
This function
ultimately calls
.B XAllocColor
to allocate a read-only color cell with
the color specified by a color string.
The color string is parsed into an
.B XcmsColor
structure (see
.BR XcmsLookupColor ),
converted
to an RGB value, and finally passed to
.BR 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.
.LP
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
.B 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
.BR 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.
.LP
.LP
.B XcmsAllocNamedColor
can generate a
.B BadColor
errors.
.SH DIAGNOSTICS
.TP 1i
.B BadColor
A value for a Colormap argument does not name a defined Colormap.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
XcmsQueryColor(3),
XcmsStoreColor(3)
.br
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