Re: Any RGB macro in Gtk?

[Paul Davis <paul linuxaudiosystems com>]

On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 8:38 AM, Ken Resander <kresander yahoo com> wrote:

 

Q2. while googling I came across this for GdkColor: 'the programmer provides the r,g and b intensities and GDK fills in the pixel component.' When does GDK do this? By what functions?

Q3. I have tried reading about Colormaps and Colors in the GDK reference manual, but I am getting stuck on the basics. For example in the Description what does this mean: 'A colormap is an object that contains the mapping between the color values stored in memory and the RGB values that are used to display color values. In general, colormaps only contain significant information for pseudo-color visuals, but even for other visual types, a colormap object is required in some circumstances.' Does it mean 'a colormap is a list of GdkColors like a palette'?  Is the RGB value mentioned in the description the pixel component in the GdkColor?

Q4. For GdkColor the manual says 'the GdkColor structure is used to describe an allocated or unallocated color'. What does allocated and unallocated color mean?

Q5. The Colormaps and Colors Reference contains several functions, but I did not use any of them. It still worked with the colours coming out the way I expected. When are these functions used/needed? Or are they becoming obsolete?

they are not obsolete, but they represent a deeper "model" of how color rendering works on a framebuffer display than most developers will ever need. its generally just fine for you to think in terms of "i need a red color, so i'll create it, and then use that to draw with". this actually is not what happens deeper in the graphics stack, and because X Window (the first platform that GDK was written on) tends to expose these "deeper" concepts, they've shown up in GDK too.

there are some places where the difference between "i need red, so i'll create it and use it" and what actually happens does matter, but if you only write applications with GTK and don't tend to hack on GTK itself, you will probably need to worry about them.

--p

 

 




--- On Fri, 13/8/10, Ken Resander <kresander yahoo com> wrote:

From: Ken Resander <kresander yahoo com>
Subject: Any RGB macro in Gtk?
To: gtk-list gnome org
Date: Friday, 13 August, 2010, 6:48 PM

I would like to port some Windows programs to Ubuntu+Gtk. These contain several large colour lookup tables using the Windows RGB macro. For example:

static COLALTINFO safealts [ NUMCOLITEMS ]
   =
   {
   { RGB(0xF0,0xF8,0xFF),RGB(0xFF,0xFF,0xFF) ,RGB(0x00,0x00,0x00) },
   { RGB(0xFA,0xEB,0xD7),RGB(0xFF,0xFF,0xCC) ,RGB(0x00,0x00,0x00) },
   ....

I have not done any drawing yet with Gtk and don't know how colours work, but there are thousands of RGB macro calls and it would very tedious and error prone if I have to change them manually. I really don't want to touch the RGB colour values in the lookup tables, but I probably would have change the COLALTINFO definition to match the way Gtk represents colour.

Is there a RGB macro in Gtk/Gdk, or can such macro be written?
 
P.S.
The Windows RGB macro builds a 24-bit int constant (COLORREF).
and is defined as follows:

#define RGB(r, g ,b)  ((DWORD) (((BYTE) (r) | \
                      ((WORD) (g) << 8)) | \
                      (((DWORD) (BYTE) (b)) << 16)))

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