NAME¶
dstyle - format of .dstyle files (display styles)
DESCRIPTION¶
Display styles indicate how to render information on a screen. Each style
describes one way of rendering information, for example as a solid area in red
or as a dotted outline in purple. Different styles correspond to mask layers,
highlights, labels, menus, window borders, and so on. See ``Magic Maintainer's
Manual #3: Display Styles, Color Maps, and Glyphs'' for more information on
how the styles are used.
Dstyle files usually have names of the form
x.y.dstyle n, where
x is a class of
technologies,
y is a class of displays, and
n is a version
number (currently
5). The version number may increase in the future if
the format of dstyle files changes. For example, the display style file
mos.7bit.dstyle5 provides all the rendering information for our nMOS
and CMOS technologies for color displays with at least 7 bits of color.
Dstyle files are stored in ASCII as a series of lines. Lines beginning with
``#'' are considered to be comments and are ignored. The rest of the lines of
the file are divided up into two sections separated by blank lines. There
should not be any blank lines within a section.
DISPLAY_STYLES SECTION¶
The first section begins with a line
display_styles planes where
planes is the number of bits of color information per pixel on the
screen (between 1 and 8). Each line after that describes one display style and
contains eight fields separated by white space:
style writeMask color
outline fill stipple shortName longName The meanings of the fields are:
- style
- The number of this style, in decimal. Styles 1 through 64
are used to display mask layers in the edit cell. The style number(s) to
use for each mask layer is (are) specified in the technology file. Styles
65-128 are used for displaying mask layers in non-edit cells. If style
x is used for a mask layer in the edit cell, style x+64 is
used for the same mask layer in non-edit cells. Styles above 128 are used
by the Magic code for various things like menus and highlights. See the
file styles.h in Magic for how styles above 128 are used. When
redisplaying, the styles are drawn in order starting at 1, so the order of
styles may affect what appears on the screen.
- writeMask
- This is an octal number specifying which bit-planes are to
be modified when this style is rendered. For example, 1 means only
information in bit-plane 0 will be affected, and 377 means all eight
bit-planes are affected.
- color
- An octal number specifying the new values to be written
into the bit-planes that are modified. This is used along with
writeMask to determine the new value of each pixel that's being
modified: newPixel = (oldPixel & ∼writeMask) | (color &
writeMask) The red, green, and blue intensities displayed for each pixel
are not deterimined directly by the value of the pixel; they come from a
color map that maps the eight-bit pixel values into red, green, and blue
intensities. Color maps are stored in separate files.
- outline
- If this field is zero, then no outline is drawn. If the
field is non-zero, it specifies that outlines are to be drawn around the
rectangular areas rendered in this style, and the octal value gives an
eight-bit pattern telling how to draw the outline. For example, 377 means
to draw a solid line, 252 means to draw a dotted line, 360 specifies long
dashes, etc. This field only indicates which pixels will be
modified: the writeMask and color fields indicate how the
pixels are modified.
- fill
- This is a text string specifying how the areas drawn in
this style should be filled. It must have one of the values solid,
stipple, cross, outline, grid. Solid
means that every pixel in the area is to modified according to
writeMask and color. Stipple means that the area
should be stippled: the stipple pattern given by stipple is used to
determine which pixels in the area are to be modified. Cross means
that an X is drawn in a solid line between the diagonally-opposite corners
of the area being rendered. Outline means that the area should not
be filled at all; only an outline is drawn (if specified by
outline). Grid is a special style used to draw a grid in the
line style given by outline. The styles cross and
stipple may be supplemented with an outline by giving a non-zero
outline field. The outline and grid styles don't make
sense without an an outline, and solid doesn't make sense with an
outline (since all the pixels are modified anyway).
- stipple
- Used when fill is stipple to specify (in
decimal) the stipple number to use.
- shortName
- This is a one-character name for this style. These names
are used in the specification of glyphs and also in a few places in the
Magic source code. Most styles have no short name; use a ``-'' in this
field for them.
- longName
- A more human-readable name for the style. It's not used at
all by Magic.
STIPPLES SECTION¶
The second section of a dstyle file is separated from the first by a blank line.
The first line of the second section must be
stipples and each
additional line specifies one stipple pattern with the syntax
number
pattern name Number is a decimal number used to name the stipple in
the
stipple fields of style lines.
Number must be no less than 1
and must be no greater than a device-dependent upper limit. Most devices
support at least 15 stipple patterns.
Pattern consists of eight octal
numbers, each from 0-377 and separated by white space. The numbers form an
8-by-8 array of bits indicating which pixels are to be modified when the
stipple is used. The
name field is just a human-readable description of
the stipple; it isn't used by Magic.
FILES¶
∼cad/lib/magic/sys/mos.7bit.dstyle5
SEE ALSO¶
magic(1),
cmap(5),
glyphs(5)