GSTXCI(3NCARG)

📦 version 6.6.2, in epel 9, fedora 43, fedora 44

✨ GSTXCI ✨ — the NCAR Graphics glow-up for your text color

okay bestie, quick vibe check: this is a page from the NCAR GRAPHICS manual set, and today's main character is GSTXCI, aka Set text color index. That's literally all it does, and honestly? She does it flawlessly. 💅

NAME

GSTXCI (Set text color index) — sets the text color index. no cap, that's the whole job description. 🎀

SYNOPSIS

CALL GSTXCI (COLI)

C-BINDING SYNOPSIS

#include <ncarg/gks.h>

void gset_text_colr_ind(Gint text_colr_ind);

DESCRIPTION

  • COLI — (Integer, Input) — a color index. that's it, that's the argument, she's simple and she's iconic 🦋

USAGE

so here's the tea ☕ every single text string you draw with calls to the GTX output primitive will be drawn in the color tied to index COLI — and it stays that way until you call GSTXCI again and hand it a new index. the color commitment is real, periodt. 💖

for all GKS output primitives, color gets assigned via a color index. those indices run from 0 to 255, where:

  • 0 is the background color index 🌙
  • 1 is the foreground color index ⭐

color values get hooked up to those indices by calls to the GKS routine GSCR. and here's the plot twist 😭 — if you use a color index that has no user-assigned color value set in a GSCR call, then a device-dependent color value gets assigned to that index instead. not you rolling the dice on your palette, bestie. 🙈

ACCESS

to use GKS routines, load the NCAR GKS-0A library ncarg_gks. load her up, she's ready 💅

SEE ALSO

Online: gtx, gstxp, gstxal, gstxfp, gschh, gschsp, gschup, gschxp, gscr, gqtxp, gqtxal, gqtxfp, gqchh, gqchsp, gqchup, gqchxp, plotchar, gset_text_colr_ind

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

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

fr fr, read the License Agreement. it's giving legally binding, not giving optional. 👑

and that's the whole page, bestie — slay 💖 this little love letter to GSTXCI comes to you from the UNIX manual, March 1993 edition. iconic since day one, no notes. 🎀✨🦋

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