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From: laymon@nepal.crd.ge.com
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: push button widget & reverse video question
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Date: 20 Mar 90 19:56:10 GMT
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I am teaching myself about the X toolkit by working my way through
"X Window Systems Programming" by Douglas Young.  I am trying to get
the push button widget example on page 76 to work.  My problem is that the
button label does not show up when I have my screen in ReverseVideo 
mode (white letters on black background).  I set ReverseVideo for all 
applications by including the line

    *ReverseVideo: on 

in a file I load into the resource database using xrdb.  If I turn
ReverseVideo off, the button label shows up fine.  I have tried setting
the foreground to white using XtSetArg to load a resource array to pass
to XtCreateManagedWidget, but that has no effect.  I have another program
that uses commandWidgets where the labels show up fine in ReverseVideo.

Can any one offer any suggestions as to what I need to do to get push
button widgets to display their labels in ReverseVideo ?

One other question.  When the label does show up, the widget uses the string 
passed as the name of the widget, even when I have tried to set the resource
XtNlabel using XtSetArg.  Why ?

 Marc Laymon	         E-MAIL: laymon@nepal.crd.ge.com
 GE R&D
 Schenectady, NY