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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.