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From: art@megadata.mega.oz (Art Poirier)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Problem with XDrawImageString
Keywords: help
Message-ID: <170@megadata.mega.oz>
Date: 18 Jul 89 05:45:07 GMT
Organization: Megadata P/L, North Ryde, Sydney, Aust.
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I'm hoping someone out there can help me.

I'm trying to draw characters in a window using XDrawImageString16, expecting
it to draw the background pixels as well as the foreground pixels, but I
have been unsuccessful.

The window's background is black, and foreground colors for characters vary.
I have meticulously set the background pixel value to black in the GC,
there is no tile or stiple being used, and just for ha-ha's, I set the
function field of the GC to GCCopy (though I am equally unsuccessful using
the default value).  When I write a character to the window, the old character
shows through, and that's not what I want at all.

Now, what have I ignorantly forgotten to do, or am I expecting
XDrawImageString16 to do something it was not intended to do?

BTW, I'm using a Sun 3/60 with X11R3. No toolkits here, I'm grunting it
out with just the X library.


Thanks in advance,

Art Poirier

Megadata Pty Ltd    (Could be worse... could be "Awesome-data")
2/37 Waterloo Rd.
North Ryde
Sydney NSW 2113
Australia

Phone: (02) 805-0899

art@megadata.mega.oz.au
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