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Tk_GetJustifyFromObj 3 8.1 Tk "Tk Library Procedures"
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NAME
Tk_GetJustifyFromObj, Tk_GetJustify, Tk_NameOfJustify - translate between strings and justification styles
SYNOPSIS
#include <tk.h>
int
Tk_GetJustifyFromObj(interp, objPtr, justifyPtr)
int
Tk_GetJustify(interp, string, justifyPtr)
const char *
Tk_NameOfJustify(justify)
ARGUMENTS
.AS "Tk_Justify" *justifyPtr .AP Tcl_Interp *interp in Interpreter to use for error reporting, or NULL. .AP Tcl_Obj *objPtr in/out String value contains name of justification style, one of .QW left , .QW right , or .QW center . The internal rep will be modified to cache corresponding justify value. .AP "const char" *string in Same as objPtr except description of justification style is passed as a string. .AP int *justifyPtr out Pointer to location in which to store justify value corresponding to objPtr or string. .AP Tk_Justify justify in Justification style (one of the values listed below). E
DESCRIPTION

Tk_GetJustifyFromObj places in *justifyPtr the justify value corresponding to objPtr's value. This value will be one of the following:

TK_JUSTIFY_LEFT Means that the text on each line should start at the left edge of the line; as a result, the right edges of lines may be ragged.

TK_JUSTIFY_RIGHT Means that the text on each line should end at the right edge of the line; as a result, the left edges of lines may be ragged.

TK_JUSTIFY_CENTER Means that the text on each line should be centered; as a result, both the left and right edges of lines may be ragged.

Under normal circumstances the return value is TCL_OK and interp is unused. If objPtr does not contain a valid justification style or an abbreviation of one of these names, TCL_ERROR is returned, *justifyPtr is unmodified, and an error message is stored in interp's result if interp is not NULL. Tk_GetJustifyFromObj caches information about the return value in objPtr, which speeds up future calls to Tk_GetJustifyFromObj with the same objPtr.

Tk_GetJustify is identical to Tk_GetJustifyFromObj except that the description of the justification is specified with a string instead of an object. This prevents Tk_GetJustify from caching the return value, so Tk_GetJustify is less efficient than Tk_GetJustifyFromObj.

Tk_NameOfJustify is the logical inverse of Tk_GetJustify. Given a justify value it returns a statically-allocated string corresponding to justify. If justify is not a legal justify value, then .QW "unknown justification style" is returned.

KEYWORDS
center, fill, justification, string