GDAWK(3NCARG)

✨ GDAWK(3NCARG) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the NCAR Graphics manual, section 3, and today's main character is GDAWK — short for Deactivate workstation 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

GDAWK (Deactivate workstation) — literally just deactivates a workstation. that's the whole job. she's a one-task icon and she ate. 💖

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

CALL GDAWK (WKID)

that's it. one arg. no cap. ✨

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🦋 C-BINDING SYNOPSIS 🦋

for my C girls:

#include <ncarg/gks.h>

void gdeactivate_ws(Gint ws_id);

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

• WKID (Integer, Input) — a number that IDs the workstation you wanna deactivate. and listen, this is the important bit: WKID must be the same value you used in some previous GACWK call. same number, same workstation, no swapping. 🫶

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🔥 USAGE 🔥

so what actually happens? the specified workstation gets removed from the set of active workstations. and because GKS is like that, GKS output primitives are not sent to workstations that aren't active. so if you were wondering why your pretty little graphics aren't showing up somewhere — yeah, that's the vibe check failing. 🙈

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🌈 ACCESS 🌈

to use GKS routines, you gotta load the NCAR GKS-0A library ncarg_gks. load her up or nothing works, periodt. 💅

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

Online: gopks, gopwk, gacwk, gclwk, gclks, opngks, clsgks, gdeactivate_ws

Hardcopy: User's Guide for NCAR GKS-0A Graphics; NCAR Graphics Fundamentals, UNIX Version

go read those too, iykyk 📚

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🍓 COPYRIGHT 🍓

Copyright (C) 1987-2009 University Corporation for Atmospheric Research The use of this Software is governed by a License Agreement.

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and that's the whole page, bestie 🧚 mwah. this lil beauty dropped back in March 1993 under the UNIX banner, tagged GDAWK(3NCARG) — iconic then, iconic now. ⭐