bitmap(n) Tk Built-In Commands bitmap(n)______________________________________________________________________________NAMEbitmap - Images that display two colors
SYNOPSIS
image create bitmap ?name? ?options?
imageName cget option
imageName configure ?option? ?value option value ...?
_________________________________________________________________DESCRIPTION
A bitmap is an image whose pixels can display either of two colors or
be transparent. A bitmap image is defined by four things: a back‐
ground color, a foreground color, and two bitmaps, called the source
and the mask. Each of the bitmaps specifies 0/1 values for a rectangu‐
lar array of pixels, and the two bitmaps must have the same dimensions.
For pixels where the mask is zero, the image displays nothing, produc‐
ing a transparent effect. For other pixels, the image displays the
foreground color if the source data is one and the background color if
the source data is zero.
CREATING BITMAPS
Like all images, bitmaps are created using the image create command.
Bitmaps support the following options:
-background color
Specifies a background color for the image in any of the stan‐
dard ways accepted by Tk. If this option is set to an empty
string then the background pixels will be transparent. This
effect is achieved by using the source bitmap as the mask bit‐
map, ignoring any -maskdata or -maskfile options.
-data string
Specifies the contents of the source bitmap as a string. The
string must adhere to X11 bitmap format (e.g., as generated by
the bitmap program). If both the -data and -file options are
specified, the -data option takes precedence.
-file name
name gives the name of a file whose contents define the source
bitmap. The file must adhere to X11 bitmap format (e.g., as
generated by the bitmap program).
-foreground color
Specifies a foreground color for the image in any of the stan‐
dard ways accepted by Tk.
-maskdata string
Specifies the contents of the mask as a string. The string must
adhere to X11 bitmap format (e.g., as generated by the bitmap
program). If both the -maskdata and -maskfile options are spec‐
ified, the -maskdata option takes precedence.
-maskfile name
name gives the name of a file whose contents define the mask.
The file must adhere to X11 bitmap format (e.g., as generated by
the bitmap program).
IMAGE COMMAND
When a bitmap image is created, Tk also creates a new command whose
name is the same as the image. This command may be used to invoke var‐
ious operations on the image. It has the following general form:
imageName option ?arg arg ...?
Option and the args determine the exact behavior of the command. The
following commands are possible for bitmap images:
imageName cget option
Returns the current value of the configuration option given by
option. Option may have any of the values accepted by the image
create bitmap command.
imageName configure ?option? ?value option value ...?
Query or modify the configuration options for the image. If no
option is specified, returns a list describing all of the avail‐
able options for imageName (see Tk_ConfigureInfo for information
on the format of this list). If option is specified with no
value, then the command returns a list describing the one named
option (this list will be identical to the corresponding sublist
of the value returned if no option is specified). If one or
more option-value pairs are specified, then the command modifies
the given option(s) to have the given value(s); in this case
the command returns an empty string. Option may have any of the
values accepted by the image create bitmap command.
KEYWORDS
bitmap, image
Tk 4.0 bitmap(n)