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From: swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph R. Swick)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: GreyScale Application with Athena Widgets
Message-ID: <8909081522.AA01664@LYRE.MIT.EDU>
Date: 8 Sep 89 15:22:31 GMT
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Organization: DEC/MIT Project Athena
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> If I leave my
> colormap in they come up all black.  If I switch back to the orignal (root 
> window) colormap then they look right (but my images look ugly).
>  I tried changing the colormap very early in the startup of the program, 
> before the widgets get created, hoping they would use it ... but it doesn't 
> help.

If you specify the XtNcolormap resource for your toplevel shell
(via XtSetValues(), if you're using XtInitialize()) then all the
children will, by default, inherit your private colormap when
they are realized.  You can also specify the colormap resource
individually for each widget if you have a special need.