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58 lines
2.3 KiB
C
58 lines
2.3 KiB
C
/* GDK - The GIMP Drawing Kit
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* Copyright (C) 2000 Red Hat, Inc.
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* 2005 Imendio AB
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*
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* This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
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* modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
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* License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
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* version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
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*
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* This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
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* Lesser General Public License for more details.
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*
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* You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
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* License along with this library. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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*/
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#include "config.h"
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#include "gdkproperty.h"
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#include "gdkinternals.h"
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/**
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* SECTION:properties
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* @Short_description: Functions to manipulate properties on windows
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* @Title: Properties and Atoms
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*
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* Each window under X can have any number of associated
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* “properties” attached to it.
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* Properties are arbitrary chunks of data identified by
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* “atom”s. (An “atom”
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* is a numeric index into a string table on the X server. They are used
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* to transfer strings efficiently between clients without
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* having to transfer the entire string.) A property
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* has an associated type, which is also identified
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* using an atom.
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*
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* A property has an associated “format”,
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* an integer describing how many bits are in each unit
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* of data inside the property. It must be 8, 16, or 32.
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* When data is transferred between the server and client,
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* if they are of different endianesses it will be byteswapped
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* as necessary according to the format of the property.
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* Note that on the client side, properties of format 32
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* will be stored with one unit per long,
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* even if a long integer has more than 32 bits on the platform.
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* (This decision was apparently made for Xlib to maintain
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* compatibility with programs that assumed longs were 32
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* bits, at the expense of programs that knew better.)
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*
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* The functions in this section are used to add, remove
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* and change properties on windows, to convert atoms
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* to and from strings and to manipulate some types of
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* data commonly stored in X window properties.
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*/
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