Gargoyle Glk Extensions

Gargoyle added some internal extensions to Glk. This page formally defines those extensions so that they can be used by authors, and potentially be added to other Glk implementations.

Text formatting

These functions allow you to control colours and reverse styling at character granularity. This is needed for fully implementing a Z-Machine interpreter in Glk, as Glk’s style system isn’t powerful enough. But it could also be used directly by authors.

Support for these functions can be tested with gestalt_GarglkText (Gestalt code 0x1100). You can also make a preprocessor test for GLK_MODULE_GARGLKTEXT.

Resources:

Colours

/* Function code: 0x1100 */
void garglk_set_zcolors(glui32 fg, glui32 bg);
/* Function code: 0x1101 */
void garglk_set_zcolors_stream(strid_t str, glui32 fg, glui32 bg);

#define zcolor_Default (-1)
#define zcolor_Current (-2)

These functions set the current text foreground and background colours. Each stream has its own colours (though they will only be used for window streams). Use garglk_set_zcolors_stream to specify a stream, or garglk_set_zcolors to modify the current stream.

Colour numbers are encoded RGB values in the same way as the stylehint_TextColor style hint.

The negative colour numbers are special codes with the same meanings as those from the Z-Machine section 8.3.7. To change only the foreground colour or only the background colour, pass zcolor_Current or -2 for the other parameter, which will keep the current colour unchanged. Pass zcolor_Default or -1 to reset to the current style’s foreground or background colour.

Switching to a style which has a colour stylehint set will not override the colours specified with these functions. These colours will continue to be used until you disable them with zcolor_Default, after which the style’s colour stylehints will be used.

Reverse mode

/* Function code: 0x1102 */
void garglk_set_reversevideo(glui32 reverse);
/* Function code: 0x1103 */
void garglk_set_reversevideo_stream(strid_t str, glui32 reverse);

These functions set the reverse mode. Pass a non-zero reverse parameter to enable reverse mode, and pass 0 to disable reverse mode. Use garglk_set_reversevideo_stream to specify a stream, or garglk_set_reversevideo to modify the current stream.

Unlike colours, reverse mode stylehints do interact with these functions: reverse mode will be used if either the current style has a stylehint enabling it, or if it has been enabled by these functions. When stylehints enable reverse mode, you cannot call garglk_set_reversevideo to disable it; you can only disable reverse mode by switching to another style.

garglk_fileref_get_name (deprecated)

This function has been deprecated in favour of this glkunix function, with preprocessor macro GLKUNIX_FILEREF_GET_FILENAME:

const char *glkunix_fileref_get_filename(frefid_t fref);

This function is required by the Glk ports of several interpreters. It returns a C string of the fileref’s internal filename. In most implementations no transformation or sanitation of the filename should be required.

Support for these functions can be tested with gestalt_FilerefGetName (Gestalt code 0x1104). You can also make a preprocessor test for GLK_MODULE_FILEREF_GET_NAME.

/* Function code: 0x1104 */
char* garglk_fileref_get_name(frefid_t fref);