The XcmsAllocColor function is similar to XAllocColor except the color can be specified in any format.
The XcmsAllocColor function ultimately calls XAllocColor to allocate a read-only color cell (colormap
entry) with the specified color. XcmsAllocColor first converts the color specified to an RGB value and
then passes this to XAllocColor. XcmsAllocColor returns the pixel value of the color cell and the color
specification actually allocated. This returned color specification is the result of converting the RGB
value returned by XAllocColor into the format specified with the result_format argument. If there is no
interest in a returned color specification, unnecessary computation can be bypassed if result_format is
set to XcmsRGBFormat. The corresponding colormap cell is read-only. If this routine returns
XcmsFailure, the color_in_out color specification is left unchanged.
XcmsAllocColor can generate a BadColor errors.
The XcmsAllocNamedColor function is similar to XAllocNamedColor except that the color returned can be in
any format specified. This function ultimately calls XAllocColor to allocate a read-only color cell with
the color specified by a color string. The color string is parsed into an XcmsColor structure (see
XcmsLookupColor), converted to an RGB value, and finally passed to XAllocColor. If the color name is not
in the Host Portable Character Encoding, the result is implementation-dependent. Use of uppercase or
lowercase does not matter.
This function returns both the color specification as a result of parsing (exact specification) and the
actual color specification stored (screen specification). This screen specification is the result of
converting the RGB value returned by XAllocColor into the format specified in result_format. If there is
no interest in a returned color specification, unnecessary computation can be bypassed if result_format
is set to XcmsRGBFormat. If color_screen_return and color_exact_return point to the same structure, the
pixel field will be set correctly, but the color values are undefined.
XcmsAllocNamedColor can generate a BadColor errors.