Document symbolic colors and color expressions.

2005-11-23  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>

	* gtk/tmpl/gtkrc.sgml: Document symbolic colors and
	color expressions.
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2005-11-23 Matthias Clasen <mclasen@redhat.com>
* gtk/gtksettings.c (gtk_settings_class_init): Add some docs
about gtk-color-scheme.
2005-11-23 Behdad Esfahbod <behdad@gnome.org>
* configure.in (enable_explicit_deps): Fix typo when checking

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2005-11-23 Matthias Clasen <mclasen@redhat.com>
* gtk/gtksettings.c (gtk_settings_class_init): Add some docs
about gtk-color-scheme.
2005-11-23 Behdad Esfahbod <behdad@gnome.org>
* configure.in (enable_explicit_deps): Fix typo when checking

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2005-11-23 Matthias Clasen <mclasen@redhat.com>
* gtk/tmpl/gtkrc.sgml: Document symbolic colors and
color expressions.
2005-11-23 Michael Natterer <mitch@imendio.com>
* gtk/gtk-sections.txt: add gtk_style_lookup_color

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@ -440,6 +440,15 @@ elements are:
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><literal>color[<replaceable>"color-name"</replaceable>] = <replaceable>color specification</replaceable></literal></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Since 2.10, this element can be used to defines symbolic colors. See below for
the syntax of color specifications.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><literal>engine <replaceable>"engine"</replaceable> { <replaceable>engine-specific
settings</replaceable> }</literal></term>
@ -520,8 +529,7 @@ state of the widget. The states are:
<para><anchor id="color-format"/>
Colors can be specified as a string containing a color name (GTK+ knows
all names from the X color database
<filename>/usr/lib/X11/rgb.txt</filename>),
all names from the X color database <filename>/usr/lib/X11/rgb.txt</filename>),
in one of the hexadecimal forms <literal>&num;rrrrggggbbbb</literal>,
<literal>&num;rrrgggbbb</literal>, <literal>&num;rrggbb</literal>,
or <literal>&num;rgb</literal>, where <literal>r</literal>,
@ -532,6 +540,56 @@ hex digits, or they can be specified as a triplet
<literal>g</literal> and <literal>b</literal> are either integers in
the range 0-65535 or floats in the range 0.0-1.0.
</para>
<para>
Since 2.10, colors can also be specified by refering to a symbolic color, as
follows: <literal>@<!-- -->color-name</literal>, or by using expressions to combine
colors. The following expressions are currently supported:
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>mix (<replaceable>factor</replaceable>, <replaceable>color1</replaceable>, <replaceable>color2</replaceable>)</term>
<listitem><para>
Computes a new color by mixing <replaceable>color1</replaceable> and
<replaceable>color2</replaceable>. The <replaceable>factor</replaceable>
determines how close the new color is to <replaceable>color1</replaceable>.
A factor of 1.0 gives pure <replaceable>color1</replaceable>, a factor of
0.0 gives pure <replaceable>color2</replaceable>.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>shade (<replaceable>factor</replaceable>, <replaceable>color</replaceable>)</term>
<listitem><para>
Computes a lighter or darker variant of <replaceable>color</replaceable>.
A <replaceable>factor</replaceable> of 1.0 leaves the color unchanged, smaller
factors yield darker colors, larger factors yield lighter colors.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>lighter (<replaceable>color</replaceable>)</term>
<listitem><para>
This is an abbreviation for
<literal>shade (1.3, <replaceable>color</replaceable>)</literal>.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>darker (<replaceable>color</replaceable>)</term>
<listitem><para>
This is an abbreviation for
<literal>shade (0.7, <replaceable>color</replaceable>)</literal>.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</para>
<para>
Here are some examples of color expressions:
<informalexample><programlisting>
mix (0.5, "red", "blue")
shade (1.5, mix (0.3, "&num;0abbc0", { 0.3, 0.5, 0.9 }))
lighter (@<!-- -->foreground)
</programlisting></informalexample>
</para>
<para>
In a <literal>stock</literal> definition, icon sources are specified as a
@ -744,6 +802,7 @@ specific portions of a RC file.
@GTK_RC_TOKEN_STOCK:
@GTK_RC_TOKEN_LTR:
@GTK_RC_TOKEN_RTL:
@GTK_RC_TOKEN_COLOR:
@GTK_RC_TOKEN_LAST:
<!-- ##### FUNCTION gtk_rc_scanner_new ##### -->

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@ -433,6 +433,22 @@ gtk_settings_class_init (GtkSettingsClass *class)
g_assert (result == PROP_TIMEOUT_REPEAT);
/**
* GtkSettings:gtk-color-scheme:
*
* A palette of named colors for use in themes. The format of the string is
* <programlisting>
* name1: color1
* name2: color2
* ...
* </programlisting>
* Color names must be acceptable as identifiers in the
* <link linkend="gtk-Resource-Files">gtkrc</link> syntax, and
* color specifications must be in the format accepted by
* gdk_color_parse().
*
* Since: 2.10
*/
result = settings_install_property_parser (class,
g_param_spec_string ("gtk-color-scheme",
P_("Color scheme"),