GQOPS(3NCARG)

✨ GQOPS — bestie, what's your GKS vibe rn?? ✨

okay so this page lives in the NCAR GRAPHICS manual (that's the manual name, she's fancy like that 💅), and the whole point of GQOPS is: it tells you the operating state of GKS. Like a vibe check but for graphics. Inquire operating state value, that's her full government name. 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

GQOPS — Inquire operating state value — returns the operating state of GKS. no cap, that's literally it. 🦋

🌟 SYNOPSIS 🌟

CALL GQOPS (OPSTA)

💜 C-BINDING SYNOPSIS 💜

for the C girlies 🫶

#include <ncarg/gks.h>

void ginq_op_st(Gop_st *op_st);

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay bestie, here's the tea ☕ — there's exactly one argument and she's an output:

• OPSTA — (Integer, Output) — she hands you back the GKS operating state, and the state is one of these five icons:
  • 0 — GKS is closed 🚪 (nobody's home, the lights are off)
  • 1 — GKS is open 🪟 (we're in business)
  • 2 — Additionally, a workstation is open 🖥️✨
  • 3 — Additionally, a workstation is active 🔥 (main character energy fr)
  • 4 — Additionally, a segment is open 🎀

ngl the "Additionally" is doing a lot of work here — each number means everything from the level below it too, so 4 is like the whole stack: GKS open, workstation open, workstation active, and a segment open. The way that it just keeps stacking?? obsessed. 👑

🚪 ACCESS 🚪

to actually use these GKS routines, you gotta load the NCAR GKS-0A library called ncarg_gks. that's the whole access situation, periodt. 💅

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

Online: gopks, gopwk, gacwk, gdawk, gclwk, gclks, opngks, clsgks, ginq_op_st — the whole friend group, go say hi 🫶

Hardcopy: "User's Guide for NCAR GKS-0A Graphics" — yes she's on paper, she's vintage, she's iconic 📖✨

©️ COPYRIGHT ©️

Copyright (C) 1987-2009 University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

The use of this Software is governed by a License Agreement.

yes bestie, there's a license agreement. read it. respect it. 🫡

and that's the page!! 💖 this one came out in March 1993, on UNIX, and it's filed under GQOPS(3NCARG) in the NCAR GRAPHICS manual — so if you ever forget what state your GKS is in, she will always tell you. slay. 🌈💅