GINQ_TEXT_COLR_IND(3NCARG)

✨ GINQ_TEXT_COLR_IND ✨

okay bestie, listen up — this is a page from the NCAR GRAPHICS manual, section 3NCARG, and it's about a lil function called ginq_text_colr_ind. Yes the name is a whole mouthful, we're gonna get through it together. 🫶

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💖 NAME 💖

ginq_text_colr_ind — also known as Inquire text color index — literally just retrieves the current text color index. That's the whole job. She's a getter, she's lowkey minding her own business, and she ate. 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <ncarg/gks.h>

void ginq_text_colr_ind(Gint *err_ind, Gint *text_colr_ind);

Look at her. Two pointers. No return value. Iconic behavior. ✨

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so the function takes two arguments, and BOTH of them are outputs. Not inputs. Outputs. She's not asking you for anything, she's giving. 💅

• err_ind — (Output) — this is where the drama lives. If the value you asked for can't be returned correctly, you get a non-zero error indicator dropped right into err_ind. If everything's chill and fine? You get a zero. That's it, that's the vibe check. 🎀 And for the actual meaning of each error indicator, go consult the "User's Guide for NCAR GKS-0A Graphics" — no cap, that's where the lore is.
• text_colr_ind — (Output) — and here's the actual tea ☕: this returns the current text color index, whether it got set by default or because somebody called gset_text_colr_ind. Either way, this is where you find out what color your text is serving. 🌈

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👑 ACCESS 👑

To use the GKS C-binding routines (that's these right here, bestie), you need to load up the ncarg_gks and ncarg_c libraries. Both of them. Don't skip one, it's giving missing symbol energy and nobody wants that. 😭

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

🧚 Online

• gtext(3NCARG)
• gset_text_path(3NCARG)
• gset_text_align(3NCARG)
• gset_text_font_prec(3NCARG)
• gset_char_ht(3NCARG)
• gset_char_space(3NCARG)
• gset_char_up_vec(3NCARG)
• gset_char_expan(3NCARG)
• gset_colr_rep(3NCARG)
• gset_text_colr_ind(3NCARG)
• ginq_text_path(3NCARG)
• ginq_text_align(3NCARG)
• ginq_text_font_prec(3NCARG)
• ginq_char_ht(3NCARG)
• ginq_char_space(3NCARG)
• ginq_char_up_vec(3NCARG)
• ginq_char_expan(3NCARG)
• plotchar(3NCARG)
• gks(3NCARG)
• ncarg_gks_cbind(3NCARG)

📚 Hardcopy

• User's Guide for NCAR GKS-0A Graphics
• NCAR Graphics Fundamentals, UNIX Version

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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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fr fr, respect the license, it's the least you can do for the people who gave us color text in the first place 💜

and that's the whole page, bestie — you're officially fluent in ginq_text_colr_ind ✨🦋🌸

signing off from the UNIX manual, March 1993 edition, where this lil baddie has been living rent-free since before we were born 👑