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- .so man.macros
- .HS Tk_GetCursor tkc
- .BS
- .SH NAME
- Tk_GetCursor, Tk_GetCursorFromData, Tk_NameOfCursor, Tk_FreeCursor \- maintain database of cursors
- .SH SYNOPSIS
- .nf
- \fB#include <tk.h>\fR
- .sp
- Cursor
- \fBTk_GetCursor(\fIinterp, tkwin, nameId\fB)\fR
- .sp
- Cursor
- \fBTk_GetCursorFromData(\fIinterp, tkwin, source, mask, width, height, xHot, yHot, fg, bg\fB)\fR
- .sp
- char *
- .VS
- \fBTk_NameOfCursor(\fIdisplay, cursor\fB)\fR
- .sp
- \fBTk_FreeCursor(\fIdisplay, cursor\fB)\fR
- .VE
- .SH ARGUMENTS
- .AS "unsigned long" *pixelPtr
- .AP Tcl_Interp *interp in
- Interpreter to use for error reporting.
- .AP Tk_Window tkwin in
- Token for window in which the cursor will be used.
- .AP Tk_Uid nameId in
- Description of cursor; see below for possible values.
- .AP char *source in
- Data for cursor bitmap, in standard bitmap format.
- .AP char *mask in
- Data for mask bitmap, in standard bitmap format.
- .AP "unsigned int" width in
- Width of \fIsource\fR and \fImask\fR.
- .AP "unsigned int" height in
- Height of \fIsource\fR and \fImask\fR.
- .AP "unsigned int" xHot in
- X-location of cursor hot-spot.
- .AP "unsigned int" yHot in
- Y-location of cursor hot-spot.
- .AP Tk_Uid fg in
- Textual description of foreground color for cursor.
- .AP Tk_Uid bg in
- Textual description of background color for cursor.
- .AP Display *display in
- Display for which \fIcursor\fR was allocated.
- .VS
- .VE
- .AP Cursor cursor in
- X identifier for cursor. If passed to\fBTk_FreeCursor\fR, must
- have been returned by some previous call to \fBTk_GetCursor\fR or
- \fBTk_GetCursorFromData\fR.
- .BE
-
- .SH DESCRIPTION
- .PP
- These procedures manage a collection of cursors
- being used by an application. The procedures allow cursors to be
- re-used efficiently, thereby avoiding server overhead, and also
- allow cursors to be named with character strings (actually Tk_Uids).
- .PP
- \fBTk_GetCursor\fR takes as argument a Tk_Uid describing a cursor,
- and returns the X identifier for a cursor corresponding to the
- description. It re-uses an existing cursor if possible and
- creates a new one otherwise. \fINameId\fR must be a standard Tcl
- list with one of the following forms:
- .TP
- \fIname\fR\ \ [\fIfgColor\fR\ \ [\fIbgColor\fR]]
- \fIName\fR is the name of a cursor in the standard X cursor font,
- i.e., any of the names defined in \fBcursorfont.h\fR, without
- the \fBXC_\fR. Some example values are \fBX_cursor\fR, \fBhand2\fR,
- or \fBleft_ptr\fR. Appendix B of ``The X Window System''
- by Scheifler & Gettys has illustrations showing what each of these
- cursors looks like. If \fIfgColor\fR and \fIbgColor\fR are both
- specified, they give the foreground and background colors to use
- for the cursor (any of the forms acceptable to \fBTk_GetColor\fR
- may be used). If only \fIfgColor\fR is specified, then there
- will be no background color: the background will be transparent.
- If no colors are specified, then the cursor
- will use black for its foreground color and white for its background
- color.
- .TP
- \fB@\fIsourceName\ \ maskName\ \ fgColor\ \ bgColor\fR
- .br
- In this form, \fIsourceName\fR and \fImaskName\fR are the names of
- files describing bitmaps for the cursor's source bits and mask.
- Each file must be in standard X11 or X10 bitmap format.
- \fIFgColor\fR and \fIbgColor\fR
- indicate the colors to use for the
- cursor, in any of the forms acceptable to \fBTk_GetColor\fR.
- .TP
- \fB@\fIsourceName\ \ fgColor\fR
- .br
- This form is similar to the one above, except that the source is
- used as mask also. This means that the cursor's background is transparent.
- .PP
- \fBTk_GetCursorFromData\fR allows cursors to be created from
- in-memory descriptions of their source and mask bitmaps. \fISource\fR
- points to standard bitmap data for the cursor's source bits, and
- \fImask\fR points to standard bitmap data describing
- which pixels of \fIsource\fR are to be drawn and which are to be
- considered transparent. \fIWidth\fR and \fIheight\fR give the
- dimensions of the cursor, \fIxHot\fR and \fIyHot\fR indicate the
- location of the cursor's hot-spot (the point that is reported when
- an event occurs), and \fIfg\fR and \fIbg\fR describe the cursor's
- foreground and background colors textually (any of the forms
- suitable for \fBTk_GetColor\fR may be used). Typically, the
- arguments to \fBTk_GetCursorFromData\fR are created by including
- a cursor file directly into the source code for a program, as in
- the following example:
- .nf
- .RS
- \fCCursor cursor;
- #include "source.cursor"
- #include "mask.cursor"
- cursor = Tk_GetCursorFromData(interp, tkwin, source_bits,
- mask_bits, source_width, source_height, source_x_hot,
- source_y_hot, Tk_GetUid("red"), Tk_GetUid("blue"));\fR
- .RE
- .fi
- .PP
- Under normal conditions, \fBTk_GetCursor\fR and \fBTk_GetCursorFromData\fR
- will return an identifier for the requested cursor. If an error
- occurs in creating the cursor, such as when \fInameId\fR refers
- to a non-existent file, then \fBNone\fR is returned and an error
- message will be stored in \fIinterp->result\fR.
- .PP
- \fBTk_GetCursor\fR and \fBTk_GetCursorFromData\fR maintain a
- database of all the cursors they have created. Whenever possible,
- a call to \fBTk_GetCursor\fR or \fBTk_GetCursorFromData\fR will
- return an existing cursor rather than creating a new one. This
- approach can substantially reduce server overhead, so the Tk
- procedures should generally be used in preference to Xlib procedures
- like \fBXCreateFontCursor\fR or \fBXCreatePixmapCursor\fR, which
- create a new cursor on each call.
- .PP
- The procedure \fBTk_NameOfCursor\fR is roughly the inverse of
- \fBTk_GetCursor\fR. If its \fIcursor\fR argument was created
- by \fBTk_GetCursor\fR, then the return value is the \fInameId\fR
- argument that was passed to \fBTk_GetCursor\fR to create the
- cursor. If \fIcursor\fR was created by a call to \fBTk_GetCursorFromData\fR,
- or by any other mechanism, then the return value is a hexadecimal string
- giving the X identifier for the cursor.
- Note: the string returned by \fBTk_NameOfCursor\fR is
- only guaranteed to persist until the next call to \fBTk_NameOfCursor\fR.
- .PP
- When a cursor returned by \fBTk_GetCursor\fR or \fBTk_GetCursorFromData\fR
- is no longer needed, \fBTk_FreeCursor\fR should be called to release it.
- There should be exactly one call to \fBTk_FreeCursor\fR for
- each call to \fBTk_GetCursor\fR or \fBTk_GetCursorFromData\fR.
- When a cursor is no longer in use anywhere (i.e. it has been freed as
- many times as it has been gotten) \fBTk_FreeCursor\fR will release
- it to the X server and remove it from the database.
-
- .SH BUGS
- In determining whether an existing cursor can be used to satisfy
- a new request, \fBTk_GetCursor\fR and \fBTk_GetCursorFromData\fR
- consider only the immediate values of their arguments. For
- example, when a file name is passed to \fBTk_GetCursor\fR,
- \fBTk_GetCursor\fR will assume it is safe to re-use an existing
- cursor created from the same file name: it will not check to
- see whether the file itself has changed, or whether the current
- directory has changed, thereby causing the name to refer to
- a different file. Similarly, \fBTk_GetCursorFromData\fR assumes
- that if the same \fIsource\fR pointer is used in two different calls,
- then the pointers refer to the same data; it does not check to
- see if the actual data values have changed.
-
- .SH KEYWORDS
- cursor
-