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Tk_GetDash(3) Tk Library Procedures Tk_GetDash(3) ________________________________________________________________________________ NAME Tk_GetDash - convert from string to valid dash structure. SYNOPSIS #include <tk.h> int Tk_GetDash(interp, string, dashPtr) ARGUMENTS Tcl_Interp *interp (in) Interpreter to use for error reporting. const char *string (in) Textual value to be converted. Tk_Dash *dashPtr (out) Points to place to store the dash pattern value converted from string. Must not be NULL. ________________________________________________________________________________ DESCRIPTION These procedure parses the string and fills in the result in the Tk_Dash structure. The string can be a list of integers or a character string con- taining only ".,-_" and spaces. If all goes well, TCL_OK is returned and a dash descriptor is stored in the variable pointed to by dashPtr. If string does not have the proper syntax then TCL_ERROR is returned, an error mes- sage is left in the interpreter's result, and nothing is stored at *dash- Ptr. The first possible syntax is a list of integers. Each element represents the number of pixels of a line segment. Only the odd segments are drawn us- ing the "outline" color. The other segments are drawn transparent. The second possible syntax is a character list containing only 5 possible characters ".,-_ ". The space can be used to enlarge the space between other line elements, and can not occur in the first position of the string. Some examples: -dash . = -dash {2 4} -dash - = -dash {6 4} -dash -. = -dash {6 4 2 4} -dash -.. = -dash {6 4 2 4 2 4} -dash {. } = -dash {2 8} -dash , = -dash {4 4} The main difference between this syntax and the numeric is that it is shape-conserving. This means that all values in the dash list will be mul- tiplied by the line width before display. This ensures that "." will al- ways be displayed as a dot and "-" always as a dash regardless of the line width. On systems where only a limited set of dash patterns, the dash pattern will be displayed as the most close dash pattern that is available. For example, on Windows only the first 4 of the above examples are available; the last 2 examples will be displayed identically to the first one. SEE ALSO canvas(n), Tk_CreateItemType(3) KEYWORDS dash, conversion Tk 8.3 Tk_GetDash(3)
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