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Tk_AllocCursorFromObj(3)




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NAME

       Tk_AllocCursorFromObj, Tk_GetCursor, Tk_GetCursorFromObj, Tk_GetCursor-
       FromData, Tk_NameOfCursor, Tk_FreeCursorFromObj, Tk_FreeCursor -  main-
       tain database of cursors


SYNOPSIS

       #include <tk.h>

       Tk_Cursor                                                               |
       Tk_AllocCursorFromObj(interp, tkwin, objPtr)                            |

       Tk_Cursor                                                               |
       Tk_GetCursor(interp, tkwin, name)                                       |

       Tk_Cursor                                                               |
       Tk_GetCursorFromObj(tkwin, objPtr)                                      |

       Tk_Cursor
       Tk_GetCursorFromData(interp, tkwin, source, mask, width, height, xHot, yHot, fg, bg)

       CONST char *
       Tk_NameOfCursor(display, cursor)

       Tk_FreeCursorFromObj(tkwin, objPtr)                                     |

       Tk_FreeCursor(display, cursor)


ARGUMENTS

       Tcl_Interp      *interp     (in)      Interpreter   to  use  for  error
                                             reporting.

       Tk_Window       tkwin       (in)      Token for  window  in  which  the
                                             cursor will be used.

       Tcl_Obj         *objPtr     (in/out)                                    ||
                                             Description of cursor;  see below |
                                             for  possible  values.   Internal |
                                             rep will  be  modified  to  cache |
                                             pointer  to corresponding Tk_Cur- |
                                             sor.                              |

       char            *name       (in)                                        ||
                                             Same as objPtr except description |
                                             of cursor is passed as  a  string |
                                             and   resulting  Tk_Cursor  isn't |
                                             cached.

       CONST char      *source     (in)      Data for cursor cursor, in  stan-
                                             dard cursor format.

       CONST char      *mask       (in)      Data for mask cursor, in standard
                                             cursor format.

       int             width       (in)      Width of source and mask.

       int             height      (in)      Height of source and mask.

       int             xHot        (in)      X-location of cursor hot-spot.

       int             yHot        (in)      Y-location of cursor hot-spot.

       Tk_Uid          fg          (in)      Textual description of foreground
                                             color for cursor.

       Tk_Uid          bg          (in)      Textual description of background
                                             color for cursor.

       Display         *display    (in)      Display  for  which  cursor   was
                                             allocated.

       Tk_Cursor       cursor      (in)      Opaque  Tk identifier for cursor.
                                             If passed to Tk_FreeCursor,  must
                                             have been returned by some previ-
                                             ous  call  to   Tk_GetCursor   or
                                             Tk_GetCursorFromData.
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DESCRIPTION

       These procedures manage a collection of cursors being used by an appli-
       cation.  The  procedures  allow  cursors  to  be  re-used  efficiently,
       thereby  avoiding  server  overhead, and also allow cursors to be named
       with character strings.

       Tk_AllocCursorFromObj takes as argument an object describing a  cursor, |
       and  returns  an opaque Tk identifier for a cursor corresponding to the |
       description.  It re-uses an existing cursor if possible and  creates  a |
       new  one otherwise.  Tk_AllocCursorFromObj caches information about the |
       return value in objPtr, which speeds up future calls to procedures such |
       as Tk_AllocCursorFromObj and Tk_GetCursorFromObj. If an error occurs in |
       creating the cursor, such as when objPtr refers to a non-existent file, |
       then  None  is returned and an error message will be stored in interp's |
       result if interp isn't NULL.  ObjPtr must contain a standard  Tcl  list |
       with one of the following forms:

       name [fgColor [bgColor]]
              Name  is  the  name of a cursor in the standard X cursor cursor,
              i.e., any of the names defined in  cursorcursor.h,  without  the
              XC_.  Some example values are X_cursor, hand2, or left_ptr.  Ap-
              pendix B of ``The X Window System'' by Scheifler  &  Gettys  has
              illustrations showing what each of these cursors looks like.  If
              fgColor and bgColor are both specified, they give the foreground
              and  background  colors  to use for the cursor (any of the forms
              acceptable to Tk_GetColor may be  used).   If  only  fgColor  is
              specified,  then  there  will be no background color:  the back-
              ground will be transparent.  If no colors  are  specified,  then
              the cursor will use black for its foreground color and white for
              its background color.

              The Macintosh version of Tk supports all of the  X  cursors  and
              will  also  accept  any  of  the  standard Mac cursors including
              ibeam, crosshair, watch, plus, and arrow.  In addition, Tk  will
              load  Macintosh  cursor  resources of the types crsr (color) and
              CURS (black and white) by the name of the of the resource.   The
              application  and  all  its open dynamic library's resource files
              will be searched for the named cursor.  If there  are  conflicts
              color  cursors  will always be loaded in preference to black and
              white cursors.

       @sourceName maskName fgColor bgColor
              In this form, sourceName and maskName are  the  names  of  files
              describing  cursors for the cursor's source bits and mask.  Each
              file must be in standard X11 or X10 cursor format.  FgColor  and
              bgColor indicate the colors to use for the cursor, in any of the
              forms acceptable to Tk_GetColor.  This form of the command  will
              not work on Macintosh or Windows computers.

       @sourceName fgColor
              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.   This  form of the command will not work on Macin-
              tosh or Windows computers.

       @sourceName
              This form only works on Windows, and will load a Windows  system
              cursor (.ani or .cur) from the file specified in sourceName.

       Tk_GetCursor  is  identical  to  Tk_AllocCursorFromObj  except that the |
       description of the cursor is specified with  a  string  instead  of  an |
       object.   This  prevents Tk_GetCursor from caching the return value, so |
       Tk_GetCursor is less efficient than Tk_AllocCursorFromObj.              |

       Tk_GetCursorFromObj returns the token for an existing cursor, given the |
       window  and description used to create the cursor.  Tk_GetCursorFromObj |
       doesn't actually create the cursor; the cursor must already  have  been |
       created  with a previous call to Tk_AllocCursorFromObj or Tk_GetCursor. |
       The return value is cached in objPtr, which speeds up future  calls  to |
       Tk_GetCursorFromObj with the same objPtr and tkwin.

       Tk_GetCursorFromData  allows  cursors  to  be  created  from  in-memory
       descriptions of their source and mask cursors.  Source points to  stan-
       dard cursor data for the cursor's source bits, and mask points to stan-
       dard cursor data describing which pixels of source are to be drawn  and
       which  are  to  be  considered  transparent.  Width and height give the
       dimensions of the cursor, xHot and yHot indicate the  location  of  the
       cursor's  hot-spot  (the  point that is reported when an event occurs),
       and fg and bg describe the cursor's foreground  and  background  colors
       textually  (any  of  the  forms  suitable for Tk_GetColor may be used).
       Typically, the arguments to Tk_GetCursorFromData are created by includ-
       ing  a  cursor  file directly into the source code for a program, as in
       the following example:
              Tk_Cursor 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"));

       Under normal conditions Tk_GetCursorFromData will return an  identifier
       for  the  requested  cursor.  If an error occurs in creating the cursor
       then None is returned and an error message will be stored  in  interp's
       result.

       Tk_AllocCursorFromObj,  Tk_GetCursor, and Tk_GetCursorFromData maintain
       a database of all the cursors they have created.  Whenever possible,  a
       call  to  Tk_AllocCursorFromObj,  Tk_GetCursor, or Tk_GetCursorFromData
       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 XCreate-
       FontCursor  or  XCreatePixmapCursor,  which create a new cursor on each
       call.  The Tk procedures are also more portable than the lower-level  X
       procedures.

       The  procedure  Tk_NameOfCursor is roughly the inverse of Tk_GetCursor.
       If its cursor argument was created by  Tk_GetCursor,  then  the  return
       value  is  the  name argument that was passed to Tk_GetCursor to create
       the cursor.  If cursor was created by a call  to  Tk_GetCursorFromData,
       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  Tk_NameOfCursor  is  only guaranteed to persist until the
       next call to Tk_NameOfCursor.  Also, this call is not  portable  except
       for cursors returned by Tk_GetCursor.

       When  a  cursor  returned  by  Tk_AllocCursorFromObj,  Tk_GetCursor, or |
       Tk_GetCursorFromData  is  no  longer  needed,  Tk_FreeCursorFromObj  or |
       Tk_FreeCursor should be called to release it.  For Tk_FreeCursorFromObj |
       the cursor to release is specified with the same  information  used  to |
       create  it;  for  Tk_FreeCursor the cursor to release is specified with |
       its Tk_Cursor token.  There should be exactly one call to Tk_FreeCursor |
       for  each call to Tk_AllocCursorFromObj, Tk_GetCursor, or Tk_GetCursor- |
       FromData.


BUGS

       In determining whether an existing cursor can be used to satisfy a  new
       request,  Tk_AllocCursorFromObj, Tk_GetCursor, and Tk_GetCursorFromData
       consider only the immediate values of their  arguments.   For  example,
       when a file name is passed to Tk_GetCursor, Tk_GetCursor 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, Tk_GetCursorFromData assumes
       that if the same source 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.


KEYWORDS

       cursor

Tk                                    8.1             Tk_AllocCursorFromObj(3)

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