PCDLSC(3NCARG)

💙 PCDLSC 💙

okay so bestie, this is a page from the NCAR Graphics manual, and the star of the show is PCDLSC — the routine that defines the default list of "special colors" that PCHIQU uses when it's drawing certain characters from the filled fonts. 👑

Call PCDLSC with the argument IFCI and it will define color indices IFCI, IFCI+1, IFCI+2, ..., IFCI+15, and it will set all elements of the internal parameter array ´CC´ corresponding to indices 1 through 16. ✨

and now the messy part 🙈 — at the moment, even though a call like that does define a set of sixteen colors (ranging from blue to red 💙→❤️) and does set the elements of ´CC´, it's a bit pointless, because there are literally no characters for which the special colors are used. like, none. in the future there will be a few such characters (think the state highway symbol, which is normally drawn in a particular pair of colors 🛣️), and at that time the routine will be of more use. so rn it's giving "coming soon" energy. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

CALL PCDLSC (IFCI)

🦋 C-BINDING SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <ncarg/ncargC.h>

void c_pcdlsc (int ifci)

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

• IFCI — an input expression of type INTEGER that specifies the first of a set of sixteen color indices that may be defined by PCDLSC. bestie, please make sure that these color indices are not already used. 🫶

💜 C-BINDING DESCRIPTION 💜

the C-binding argument descriptions are the same as the FORTRAN argument descriptions. no notes, no differences, same vibe. ✨

🎀 USAGE 🎀

this routine lets you set the current value of Plotchar parameters. for a complete list of parameters available in this utility, see the plotchar_params man page. 📖

🌈 ACCESS 🌈

to use PCDLSC or c_pcdlsc, load the NCAR Graphics libraries ncarg, ncarg_gks, and ncarg_c — preferably in that order. order matters, don't fight it. 👑

💌 MESSAGES 💌

see the plotchar man page for a description of all Plotchar error messages and/or informational messages. 📬

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

Online: plotchar, plotchar_params, pcgetc, pcgeti, pcgetr, pchiqu, pcloqu, pcmequ, pcmpxy, pcpnwi, pcrset, pcsetc, pcseti, pcsetr, ncarg_cbind.

Hardcopy: NCAR Graphics Fundamentals, UNIX Version

📜 COPYRIGHT 📜

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

ngl the plot twist here is that this whole routine is basically a gorgeous outfit with nowhere to go yet — but the glow-up is coming, iykyk. 🧚

mwah 💋 that's the whole page — this was the UNIX version, dated March 1993, and the man page is PCDLSC(3NCARG). periodt. 💅✨