John M. Dlugosz has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

In the pod documentation for TK::Text and other widgets, it explains of color arguments "It may have any of the forms accepted by Tk_GetColor."

There is no mention of *GetColor* in the perl directory tree other than such references. So, where is the documentation on this function?

I'm running ActiveState build 633 on a Windows system.

—John

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Re: where is documentation on Tk_GetColor ?
by PodMaster (Abbot) on Dec 17, 2002 at 21:14 UTC
    It isn't (you can find it in the Tk documentation, not perlTk). It's one of the parts of Tk i abhore. You can use the apparently case sensitive search at http://perltk.org to find more info, but what you want to pass is either basic names like red/green/blue, or hex strings ( #ff0000 #00ff00 #0000ff ).

    http://perltk.org/ptknews/search.cgi?Search=Tk_GetColor yielded http://perltk.org/ptknews/21338.htm 

    From Tk_GetColor docs: 

colorname 
Any of the valid textual names for a color defined in the server's color 
database file, such as red or PeachPuff. 

#RGB 
#RRGGBB 
#RRRGGGBBB 
#RRRRGGGGBBBB 
A numeric specification of the red, green, and blue intensities to use to 
display the color. Each R, G, or B represents a single HEXADECIMAL digit. 
The four forms permit colors to be specified with 4-bit, 8-bit, 12-bit or 
16-bit values. When fewer than 16 bits are provided for each color, they 
represent the most significant bits of the color. For example, #3a7 is the 
same as #3000a0007000.

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Re: where is documentation on Tk_GetColor ?
by {NULE} (Hermit) on Dec 17, 2002 at 22:34 UTC
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