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Colormaps and Colors

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Manipulation of colors and colormaps

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<para>
These functions are used to modify colormaps.
A colormap is an object that contains the mapping
between the color values stored in memory and
the RGB values that are used to display color
values. In general, colormaps only contain
significant information for pseudo-color visuals,
but even for other visual types, a colormap object
is required in some circumstances.
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<para>
There are a couple of special colormaps that can
be retrieved. The system colormap (retrieved 
with gdk_colormap_get_system()) is the default
colormap of the system. If you are using GdkRGB,
there is another colormap that is important - the
colormap in which GdkRGB works, retrieved with
gdk_rgb_get_cmap(). However, when using GdkRGB, 
it is not generally necessary to allocate colors
directly.
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<para>
In previous revisions of this interface, a number
of functions that take a #GdkColormap parameter
were replaced with functions whose names began
with "gdk_colormap_". This process will probably
be extended somewhat in the future - 
gdk_color_white(), gdk_color_black(), and 
gdk_color_change() will probably become aliases.
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<!-- ##### STRUCT GdkColor ##### -->
<para>
The #GdkColor structure is used to describe an 
allocated or unallocated color.
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@pixel: For allocated colors, the value used to
  draw this color on the screen.
@red: The red component of the color. This is
  a value between 0 and 65535, with 65535 indicating
  full intensitiy.
@green: The blue component of the color.
@blue: The green component of the color.

<!-- ##### STRUCT GdkColormap ##### -->
<para>
The colormap structure contains the following public fields.
</para>

@size: For pseudo-color colormaps, the number of colors
  in the colormap.
@colors: An array containing the current values in the
  colormap. This can be used to map from pixel values
  back to RGB values. This is only meaningful for
  pseudo-color colormaps.

<!-- ##### FUNCTION gdk_colormap_new ##### -->
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@visual: 
@allocate: 
@Returns: 


<!-- ##### FUNCTION gdk_colormap_ref ##### -->
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@cmap: 
@Returns: 


<!-- ##### FUNCTION gdk_colormap_unref ##### -->
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</para>

@cmap: 


<!-- ##### FUNCTION gdk_colormap_get_system ##### -->
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@Returns: 


<!-- ##### FUNCTION gdk_colormap_get_system_size ##### -->
<para>
</para>

@Returns: 


<!-- ##### FUNCTION gdk_colormap_change ##### -->
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@colormap: 
@ncolors: 


<!-- ##### FUNCTION gdk_colormap_alloc_colors ##### -->
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@colormap: 
@colors: 
@ncolors: 
@writeable: 
@best_match: 
@success: 
@Returns: 


<!-- ##### FUNCTION gdk_colormap_alloc_color ##### -->
<para>
</para>

@colormap: 
@color: 
@writeable: 
@best_match: 
@Returns: 


<!-- ##### FUNCTION gdk_colormap_free_colors ##### -->
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</para>

@colormap: 
@colors: 
@ncolors: 


<!-- ##### FUNCTION gdk_colormap_query_color ##### -->
<para>

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@colormap: 
@pixel: 
@result: 


<!-- ##### FUNCTION gdk_colormap_get_visual ##### -->
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</para>

@colormap: 
@Returns: 


<!-- ##### FUNCTION gdk_colormap_get_screen ##### -->
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</para>

@cmap: 
@Returns: 


<!-- ##### FUNCTION gdk_colors_store ##### -->
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</para>

@colormap: 
@colors: 
@ncolors: 


<!-- ##### FUNCTION gdk_color_copy ##### -->
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</para>

@color: 
@Returns: 


<!-- ##### FUNCTION gdk_color_free ##### -->
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@color: 


<!-- ##### FUNCTION gdk_colors_alloc ##### -->
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</para>

@colormap: 
@contiguous: 
@planes: 
@nplanes: 
@pixels: 
@npixels: 
@Returns: 


<!-- ##### FUNCTION gdk_colors_free ##### -->
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</para>

@colormap: 
@pixels: 
@npixels: 
@planes: 


<!-- ##### FUNCTION gdk_color_white ##### -->
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</para>

@colormap: 
@color: 
@Returns: 


<!-- ##### FUNCTION gdk_color_black ##### -->
<para>
</para>

@colormap: 
@color: 
@Returns: 


<!-- ##### FUNCTION gdk_color_parse ##### -->
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</para>

@spec: 
@color: 
@Returns: 


<!-- ##### FUNCTION gdk_color_alloc ##### -->
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</para>

@colormap: 
@color: 
@Returns: 


<!-- ##### FUNCTION gdk_color_change ##### -->
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</para>

@colormap: 
@color: 
@Returns: 


<!-- ##### FUNCTION gdk_color_equal ##### -->
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@colora: 
@colorb: 
@Returns: 


<!-- ##### FUNCTION gdk_color_hash ##### -->
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@colora: 
@Returns: 


