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XLIB FUNCTIONS                            XCreateFontCursor(3x11)



NAME
     XCreateFontCursor, XCreatePixmapCursor, XCreateGlyphCursor -
     create cursors

SYNTAX
     cc [ flag... ] file... -lX11 [ library... ]
     #include 

     Cursor XCreateFontCursor(Display *display, unsigned int
          shape);

     Cursor XCreatePixmapCursor(Display *display, Pixmap source,
          Pixmap mask, XColor *foreground_color, XColor
          *background_color, unsigned int x, unsigned int y);

     Cursor XCreateGlyphCursor(Display *display, Font
          source_font, Font mask_font, unsigned int source_char,
          unsigned int mask_char, XColor *foreground_color,
          XColor *background_color);

ARGUMENTS
     background_color
               Specifies the RGB values for the background of the
               source.

     display   Specifies the connection to the X server.

     foreground_color
               Specifies the RGB values for the foreground of the
               source.

     mask      Specifies the cursor's source bits to be displayed
               or None.

     mask_char Specifies the glyph character for the mask.

     mask_font Specifies the font for the mask glyph or None.

     shape     Specifies the shape of the cursor.

     source    Specifies the shape of the source cursor.

     source_char
               Specifies the character glyph for the source.

     source_font
               Specifies the font for the source glyph.

     x
     y         Specify the x and y coordinates, which indicate
               the hotspot relative to the source's origin.




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DESCRIPTION
     X provides a set of standard cursor shapes in a special font
     named cursor.  Applications are encouraged to use this
     interface for their cursors because the font can be custom-
     ized for the individual display type.  The shape argument
     specifies which glyph of the standard fonts to use.

     The hotspot comes from the information stored in the cursor
     font.  The initial colors of a cursor are a black foreground
     and a white background (see XRecolorCursor).

     XCreateFontCursor can generate BadAlloc and BadValue errors.

     The XCreatePixmapCursor function creates a cursor and
     returns the cursor ID associated with it.  The foreground
     and background RGB values must be specified using
     foreground_color and background_color, even if the X server
     only has a StaticGray or GrayScale screen.  The foreground
     color is used for the pixels set to 1 in the source, and the
     background color is used for the pixels set to 0.  Both
     source and mask, if specified, must have depth one (or a
     BadMatch error results) but can have any root.  The mask
     argument defines the shape of the cursor.  The pixels set to
     1 in the mask define which source pixels are displayed, and
     the pixels set to 0 define which pixels are ignored.  If no
     mask is given, all pixels of the source are displayed.  The
     mask, if present, must be the same size as the pixmap
     defined by the source argument, or a BadMatch error results.
     The hotspot must be a point within the source, or a BadMatch
     error results.

     The components of the cursor can be transformed arbitrarily
     to meet display limitations.  The pixmaps can be freed
     immediately if no further explicit references to them are to
     be made.  Subsequent drawing in the source or mask pixmap
     has an undefined effect on the cursor.  The X server might
     or might not make a copy of the pixmap.

     XCreatePixmapCursor can generate BadAlloc and BadPixmap
     errors.

     The XCreateGlyphCursor function is similar to XCreatePixmap-
     Cursor except that the source and mask bitmaps are obtained
     from the specified font glyphs.  The source_char must be a
     defined glyph in source_font, or a BadValue error results.
     If mask_font is given, mask_char must be a defined glyph in
     mask_font, or a BadValue error results.  The mask_font and
     character are optional.  The origins of the source_char and
     mask_char (if defined) glyphs are positioned coincidently
     and define the hotspot. The source_char and mask_char need
     not have the same bounding box metrics, and there is no res-
     triction on the placement of the hotspot relative to the



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     bounding boxes. If no mask_char is given, all pixels of the
     source are displayed.  You can free the fonts immediately by
     calling XFreeFont if no further explicit references to them
     are to be made.

     For 2-byte matrix fonts, the 16-bit value should be formed
     with the byte1 member in the most significant byte and the
     byte2 member in the least significant byte.

     XCreateGlyphCursor can generate BadAlloc, BadFont, and Bad-
     Value errors.

DIAGNOSTICS
     BadAlloc  The server failed to allocate the requested
               resource or server memory.

     BadFont   A value for a Font or GContext argument does not
               name a defined Font.

     BadMatch  Some argument or pair of arguments has the correct
               type and range but fails to match in some other
               way required by the request.

     BadPixmap A value for a Pixmap argument does not name a
               defined Pixmap.

     BadValue  Some numeric value falls outside the range of
               values accepted by the request.  Unless a specific
               range is specified for an argument, the full range
               defined by the argument's type is accepted.  Any
               argument defined as a set of alternatives can gen-
               erate this error.

SEE ALSO
     XDefineCursor(3x11), XLoadFont(3x11), XRecolorCursor(3x11)
     Xlib - C Language X Interface


ATTRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attri-
     butes:

     ____________________________________________________________
    |       ATTRIBUTE TYPE        |       ATTRIBUTE VALUE       |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|
    | Availability                | x11/library/libx11          |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|
    | Interface Stability         | Committed                   |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|
    | MT-Level                    | See XInitThreads(3X11)      |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|




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