XMGETCOLORS(3)

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✨ XmGetColors ✨

okay bestie, so this one lives in the library call section of the manual — it's XmGetColors, and it's the little glow-up fairy that cooks up your foreground, select, and shadow colors for you. 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

XmGetColors — a function that generates foreground, select, and shadow colors. no cap, that's literally its whole job. 🎨✨

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <Xm/Xm.h>
void XmGetColors(
Screen * screen,
Colormap colormap,
Pixel background,
Pixel * foreground,
Pixel * top_shadow,
Pixel * bottom_shadow,
Pixel * select);

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so here's the tea: XmGetColors takes a screen, a colormap, and a background pixel, and returns pixel values for foreground, select, and shadow colors. it's giving personal color stylist, honestly. 👑

  • screen — specifies the screen for which these colors should be allocated. which screen are we doing this glow-up on, bestie? 🖥️
  • colormap — specifies the colormap from which these colors should be allocated. this is the palette closet we're raiding. 🎀
  • background — specifies the background on which the colors should be based. everything else is gonna match this vibe. 🌈
  • foreground — specifies a pointer to the returned foreground pixel value. ⚠️ if this argument is NULL, no value is allocated or returned for this color. so if you pass NULL here, you simply don't get one — that's the deal, fr fr.
  • top_shadow — specifies a pointer to the returned top shadow pixel value. if this argument is NULL, no value is allocated or returned for this color. 🙈
  • bottom_shadow — specifies a pointer to the returned bottom shadow pixel value. if this argument is NULL, no value is allocated or returned for this color. 💀
  • select — specifies a pointer to the returned select pixel value. if this argument is NULL, no value is allocated or returned for this color. 🫶
lowkey the main character move here is that every single one of those four output pointers is optional — pass NULL for any of them and that color just doesn't get allocated or returned. no drama, no error, it just doesn't happen. 💅

those three are the friend group, go say hi. 🫂

okay that's the whole page, bestie — you ate. this was XmGetColors from the library call manual section, and the footer's just the same little signature on repeat, so consider this your cute sign-off. stay colorful, stay iconic, periodt. 💜✨🎀

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