GINQ_TEXT_PATH(3NCARG)

✨ GINQ_TEXT_PATH 💅 (aka "Inquire text path")

okay bestie, welcome to ginq_text_path — she lives in the NCAR GRAPHICS manual, section 3NCARG, and her whole entire job is: tell you what the current text path is. that's it. that's the vibe. 🎀

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <ncarg/gks.h>

void ginq_text_path(Gint *err_ind, Gtext_path *text_path);

like, two pointers, one question, zero drama. ✨

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so here's the tea, parameter by parameter:

• err_ind — (Output) — if the value you asked about literally cannot be returned correctly, you get a non-zero error indicator dropped in here. otherwise? a cute little zero. 🫶 and if you're like "what do the error indicators even MEAN" — go consult the "User's Guide for NCAR GKS-0A Graphics", she explains it, iykyk.
• text_path — (Output) — this one returns the current text path, whether it got set by the default or by somebody calling gset_text_path. legal values are, and I cannot stress this enough, exactly these four:
  • GPATH_RIGHT — draw successive characters in the string so that character n+1 appears to the right of character n. this is text path "right" and it is, periodt, the default. 👑
  • GPATH_LEFT — draw character n+1 to the left of character n. text path "left". 🦋
  • GPATH_UP — draw character n+1 above character n. text path "up". ⭐
  • GPATH_DOWN — draw character n+1 below character n. text path "down". 🌈

so like. four directions. she's giving compass. 🧚

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🔥 ACCESS 🔥

to use the GKS C-binding routines, bestie, you gotta load the ncarg_gks and ncarg_c libraries. both. not one. both. 💅

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

the full squad, no one left behind 💜

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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and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🫶 this lil icon is filed under UNIX, dated March 1993, and her full government name up top is GINQ_TEXT_PATH(3NCARG). slay, go inquire your text path. 💖✨