NAME

       Tk_AllocCursorFromObj,  Tk_GetCursor, Tk_GetCursorFromObj,
       Tk_GetCursorFromData,  Tk_NameOfCursor,  Tk_FreeCursorFro­
       mObj, Tk_FreeCursor - maintain 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)

       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  cur­ |
                                             sor;   see below for |
                                             possible     values. |
                                             Internal rep will be |
                                             modified  to   cache |
                                             pointer   to  corre­ |
                                             sponding  Tk_Cursor. |

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

                                             sor,   in   standard
                                             cursor format.

       char            *mask       (in)      Data  for  mask cur­
                                             sor,   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   allo­
                                             cated.

       Tk_Cursor       cursor      (in)      Opaque Tk identifier
                                             for   cursor.     If
                                             passed            to
                                             Tk_FreeCursor,  must
                                             have  been  returned
                                             by   some   previous
                                             call to Tk_GetCursor
                                             or Tk_GetCursorFrom­
                                             Data.
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DESCRIPTION

       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.

       Tk_AllocCursorFromObj takes as argument an object describ­ |
       ing  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 |

       the  return  value in objPtr, which speeds up future calls |
       to procedures such as Tk_AllocCursorFromObj and Tk_GetCur­ |
       sorFromObj.  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 cur­
              sor cursor, i.e., any of the names defined in  cur­
              sorcursor.h,  without the XC_.  Some example values
              are X_cursor, hand2, or left_ptr.   Appendix  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 speci­
              fied, they give the foreground and background  col­
              ors to use for the cursor (any of the forms accept­
              able to Tk_GetColor may be used).  If only  fgColor
              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.

              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  Macin­
              tosh 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 com­
              puters.

       @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 Macintosh or Win­
              dows computers.

              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 cur­ |
       sor,  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  standard  cursor data for the cursor's
       source bits, and  mask  points  to  standard  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).  Typi­
       cally, the arguments to Tk_GetCursorFromData  are  created
       by  including  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_GetCursorFrom­
       Data maintain a database of all the cursors they have cre­
       ated.  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     XCreateFontCursor      or

       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  hex­
       adecimal  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_NameOfCur­
       sor.  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_GetCursorFrom­ |
       Data.


BUGS

       In determining whether an existing cursor can be  used  to
       satisfy  a  new request, Tk_AllocCursorFromObj, Tk_GetCur­
       sor, 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


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