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