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From: swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph R. Swick)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Xlib graphics within widgets
Message-ID: <8910171648.AA02539@LYRE.MIT.EDU>
Date: 17 Oct 89 16:48:25 GMT
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> [two existing widgets]  have been
> adequate for any drawing application I've had to do *except*
> that I can't select a specific visual and colormap. This seems to
> be more of an Xt limitation.

Xt limitation?  I don't follow.  It would have been simple
for the developers of those widgets to provide a visual resource
and some alternate handling of the colormap resource without
any change to Xt.  Seems they didn't anticipate your need.