XCreateColormap(3)		XLIB FUNCTIONS		    XCreateColormap(3)



NAME
       XCreateColormap, XCopyColormapAndFree, XFreeColormap, XColor - create,
       copy, or destroy colormaps and color structure

SYNTAX
       Colormap XCreateColormap(Display *display, Window w, Visual *visual,
	      int alloc);

       Colormap XCopyColormapAndFree(Display *display, Colormap colormap);

       int XFreeColormap(Display *display, Colormap colormap);

ARGUMENTS
       alloc	 Specifies the colormap entries to be allocated.  You can pass
		 AllocNone or AllocAll.

       colormap	 Specifies the colormap that you want to create, copy, set, or
		 destroy.

       display	 Specifies the connection to the X server.

       visual	 Specifies a visual type supported on the screen.  If the vis-
		 ual type is not one supported by the screen, a BadMatch error
		 results.

       w	 Specifies the window on whose screen you want to create a
		 colormap.

DESCRIPTION
       The XCreateColormap function creates a colormap of the specified visual
       type for the screen on which the specified window resides and returns
       the colormap ID associated with it.  Note that the specified window is
       only used to determine the screen.

       The initial values of the colormap entries are undefined for the visual
       classes GrayScale, PseudoColor, and DirectColor.	 For StaticGray, Stat-
       icColor, and TrueColor, the entries have defined values, but those val-
       ues are specific to the visual and are not defined by X.	 For Stat-
       icGray, StaticColor, and TrueColor, alloc must be AllocNone, or a Bad-
       Match error results.  For the other visual classes, if alloc is Alloc-
       None, the colormap initially has no allocated entries, and clients can
       allocate them.  For information about the visual types, see section
       3.1.

       If alloc is AllocAll, the entire colormap is allocated writable.	 The
       initial values of all allocated entries are undefined.  For GrayScale
       and PseudoColor, the effect is as if an XAllocColorCells call returned
       all pixel values from zero to N - 1, where N is the colormap entries
       value in the specified visual.  For DirectColor, the effect is as if an
       XAllocColorPlanes call returned a pixel value of zero and red_mask,
       green_mask, and blue_mask values containing the same bits as the corre-
       sponding masks in the specified visual.	However, in all cases, none of
       these entries can be freed by using XFreeColors.

       XCreateColormap can generate BadAlloc, BadMatch, BadValue, and BadWin-
       dow errors.

       The XCopyColormapAndFree function creates a colormap of the same visual
       type and for the same screen as the specified colormap and returns the
       new colormap ID.	 It also moves all of the client's existing allocation
       from the specified colormap to the new colormap with their color values
       intact and their read-only or writable characteristics intact and frees
       those entries in the specified colormap.	 Color values in other entries
       in the new colormap are undefined.  If the specified colormap was cre-
       ated by the client with alloc set to AllocAll, the new colormap is also
       created with AllocAll, all color values for all entries are copied from
       the specified colormap, and then all entries in the specified colormap
       are freed.  If the specified colormap was not created by the client
       with AllocAll, the allocations to be moved are all those pixels and
       planes that have been allocated by the client using XAllocColor, XAl-
       locNamedColor, XAllocColorCells, or XAllocColorPlanes and that have not
       been freed since they were allocated.

       XCopyColormapAndFree can generate BadAlloc and BadColor errors.

       The XFreeColormap function deletes the association between the colormap
       resource ID and the colormap and frees the colormap storage.  However,
       this function has no effect on the default colormap for a screen.  If
       the specified colormap is an installed map for a screen, it is unin-
       stalled (see XUninstallColormap).  If the specified colormap is defined
       as the colormap for a window (by XCreateWindow, XSetWindowColormap, or
       XChangeWindowAttributes), XFreeColormap changes the colormap associated
       with the window to None and generates a ColormapNotify event.  X does
       not define the colors displayed for a window with a colormap of None.

       XFreeColormap can generate a BadColor error.

STRUCTURES
       The XColor structure contains:

       typedef struct {
	       unsigned long pixel;    /* pixel value */
	       unsigned short red, green, blue;	       /* rgb values */
	       char flags;     /* DoRed, DoGreen, DoBlue */
	       char pad;
       } XColor;

       The red, green, and blue values are always in the range 0 to 65535
       inclusive, independent of the number of bits actually used in the dis-
       play hardware.  The server scales these values down to the range used
       by the hardware.	 Black is represented by (0,0,0), and white is repre-
       sented by (65535,65535,65535).  In some functions, the flags member
       controls which of the red, green, and blue members is used and can be
       the inclusive OR of zero or more of DoRed, DoGreen, and DoBlue.

DIAGNOSTICS
       BadAlloc	 The server failed to allocate the requested resource or
		 server memory.

       BadColor	 A value for a Colormap argument does not name a defined Col-
		 ormap.

       BadMatch	 An InputOnly window is used as a Drawable.

       BadMatch	 Some argument or pair of arguments has the correct type and
		 range but fails to match in some other way required by the
		 request.

       BadValue	 Some numeric value falls outside the range of values accepted
		 by the request.  Unless a specific range is specified for an
		 argument, the full range defined by the argument's type is
		 accepted.  Any argument defined as a set of alternatives can
		 generate this error.

       BadWindow A value for a Window argument does not name a defined Window.

SEE ALSO
       XAllocColor(3), XChangeWindowAttributes(3), XCreateWindow(3), XQuery-
       Color(3), XStoreColors(3)
       Xlib - C Language X Interface



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