man showrgb
man XListFonts
cat <XROOT>/lib/X11/rgb.txt (usually /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb.txt on linux)
What *are* they teaching in the schools these days? ;)
-Jon
On Sat, 9 Dec 2000, Kevin Mitchell wrote:
>Hi All!
>
>I am just beggining to learn LessTif so you'll have to forgive me if I'm not
>quite certain how to phrase this question...
>
>I'm looking at colour resources (XmNcolormap, etc) and font resources
>(XmNfontlist, etc) for a program I'm working on (yes, it's a school
>assignment but I still think it's worth asking...)
>
>What I'd like to do is the exact opposite of what my references want me to
>do. I see that it's pretty straightforward to tell my application "make this
>_____ [background, foreground, whatever] blue, or green, or "wheat."
>
>What I want to do, however, is get my application to ask the operating
>system, at runtime, what are the names of all the colors available. I would
>like the operating system to tell me, basically, "hmmm... I have blue, and
>green and white, and aubergine...."
>
>I'd also like to do the same for fonts. I don't want to tell the program
>"use a courier font" I want the application to tell me "these are the fonts
>I have available".
>
>I've spent several hours looking through my reference materials but am no
>closer to an answer. Any suggestions?
>
>Regards,
>Kevin Mitchell
>Toronto, Canada
>
>
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