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From: swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph R. Swick)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Drawables
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Date: 1 Nov 89 19:55:21 GMT
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> I have a program that calls various functions to write on a widget. I
> now would also like to write to a Pixmap.

If you were careful, you could write a widget class whose
realize procedure created a pixmap instead of a window.  You'd
never want to try to have a parent manage one of these widgets
(unless it had special knowledge), but you could probably
get along just fine with such a widget wrapper around a pixmap.