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1.1     ! root        1: .NH 2
        !             2: Moving Bits and Pixels to and From the Screen
        !             3: .PP
        !             4: A few  programs may want to manipulate pixels that they later display on
        !             5: the screen.
        !             6: This section describes calls which will move pixels from the program to
        !             7: the window system, or from the window system to the program.
        !             8: Care must be taken to adhere to the data representation described at the
        !             9: beginning of this document to keep programs portable between machine
        !            10: architectures.
        !            11: If you always manipulate Bitmaps and XY-format Pixmaps
        !            12: in terms of 16 bit quantities, you will be quite safe.
        !            13: .FD
        !            14: .IN "Definitions" "XPixmapBitsPutXY"
        !            15: .IN "XPixmapBitsPutXY"
        !            16: .IN "Definitions" "XPixmapBitsPutZ"
        !            17: .IN "XPixmapBitsPutZ"
        !            18: .IN "Raster Op to Screen"
        !            19: XPixmapBitsPutXY (w, x, y, width, height, data, mask, func, planes)
        !            20:        short *data;
        !            21: 
        !            22: XPixmapBitsPutZ (w, x, y, width, height, data, mask, func, planes)
        !            23:        Window w;
        !            24:        int x, y, width, height;
        !            25:        caddr_t data;
        !            26:        Bitmap mask;    /* which bits to modify */
        !            27:        int func;       /* display function */
        !            28:        int planes;     /* plane mask */
        !            29: .FN
        !            30: \fIXPixmapBitsPut\fP copies client-supplied bits into a window according to the
        !            31: specified display function in the format specified by the name of the 
        !            32: procedure.
        !            33: .PP
        !            34: .IN "XY-Format Pixmap"
        !            35: .IN "Z-Format Pixmap"
        !            36: See the section on data representation for the
        !            37: difference between XY and Z format pixmaps.
        !            38: .PP
        !            39: The area modified will be controlled by the \fImask\fP argument, if it is
        !            40: nonzero.
        !            41: Only the bits in the \fImask\fP will be modified on the screen.
        !            42: .IN "Icon" "Display"
        !            43: This is often useful for Icon generation.
        !            44: .FD
        !            45: .IN "Definitions" "XBitmapBitsPut"
        !            46: .IN "XBitmapBitsPut"
        !            47: XBitmapBitsPut (w, x, y, width, height, data, foreground, background, mask, func, planes)
        !            48:        Window w;
        !            49:        int x, y, width, height, foreground, background;
        !            50:        short *data;
        !            51:        Bitmap mask;    /* which bits to modify */
        !            52:        int func;       /* display function */
        !            53:        int planes;     /* plane mask */
        !            54: .FN
        !            55: Performs a function in a region of the window using a pixmap defined by a 
        !            56: bitmap and a pair of source pixels defining the \fIforeground\fP
        !            57: and \fIbackground\fP
        !            58: pixel values.
        !            59: The plane mask defines which destination bit planes are affected.
        !            60: The display function is computed on each bit plane.
        !            61: .PP
        !            62: See the section on data representation for the format of Bitmap data.
        !            63: .PP
        !            64: The area modified will be controlled by the \fImask\fP argument.
        !            65: Only the bits in the \fImask\fP will be modified on the screen.
        !            66: This is often useful for Icon generation.
        !            67: .IN "Icon" "Display"
        !            68: .FD
        !            69: .IN "Definitions" "XPixmapSave"
        !            70: .IN "XPixmapSave"
        !            71: .IN "Saving Bits from Screen"
        !            72: Pixmap XPixmapSave (w, x, y, width, height)
        !            73:        Window w;
        !            74:        int x, y, width, height;
        !            75: .FN
        !            76: \fIXPixmapSave\fP creates a Pixmap from the given portion of the window.
        !            77: The
        !            78: pixmap will contain a direct image of that portion of the screen,
        !            79: including any visible portions of subwindows or overlapping windows, so
        !            80: this routine should be used with caution.
        !            81: Its main use will probably be
        !            82: .IN "Menus"
        !            83: .IN "XUnmapTransparent"
        !            84: in conjunction with \fIXUnmapTransparent\fP, in implementing pop-up menus or
        !            85: other `temporary' windows which save the bits under them and then
        !            86: restore those bits when destroyed.
        !            87: .PP    
        !            88: The window must be mapped, and it must be true that if there were no
        !            89: overlapping windows or subwindows, the specified portion of the window
        !            90: would be fully visible on the screen.
        !            91: .PP
        !            92: The function returns the Pixmap id for the saved pixmap, or 0
        !            93: if it failed.
        !            94: .FD
        !            95: .IN "Definitions" "XPixmapGetXY"
        !            96: .IN "XPixmapGetXY"
        !            97: .IN "Definitions" "XPixmapGetZ"
        !            98: .IN "XPixmapGetZ"
        !            99: .IN "Retrieving Bits from the Screen"
        !           100: XPixmapGetXY (w, x, y, width, height, data)
        !           101: 
        !           102: XPixmapGetZ (w, x, y, width, height, data)
        !           103:        Window w;
        !           104:        int x, y, width, height;
        !           105:        short *data;    /* RETURN */
        !           106: .FN
        !           107: \fIXPixmapGet\fP returns the pixmap in the specified format into the specified
        !           108: area of memory.
        !           109: .PP
        !           110: See the section on data representation to determine
        !           111: how large the area of memory must be reserved for the returned data.
        !           112: This function is intended for screen dump purposes.
        !           113: .PP
        !           114: The window must be mapped and it must be the case that if there were
        !           115: no subwindows or overlapping windows, the specified portion of the window
        !           116: would be fully visible on the screen.

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