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6.1 Constructors

There are two constructors for VDisplay:

VDisplay( const char *name );
VDisplay();

The first form initialises the display from one of the standard VIPS display types. For example:

VDisplay fred( "sRGB" );
VDisplay jim( "ultra2-20/2/98" );

Makes fred a profile for making images in sRGB format, and jim a profile representing my workstation display, as of 20/2/98. The second form of constructor makes an uninitialised display.

For another convenient way to make display profiles, see also the VImage member function ICC2display() in §4.3.



John Cupitt 2003-07-21