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From: kit@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Chris D. Peterson)
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Subject: Re: loading resources problem
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Date: 22 Mar 90 17:43:46 GMT
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>  If I check the resource
> values using XtGetApplicationResources, the values are
> foreground= 1, background= 1, and reverse video = 1.

if foreground_pixel == backgroun_pixel then you will be getting black on black
(or green on green or whatever) so it is not surprising that you cannot see the
button label.

> If I then
> load .FORMEDIT, then run ROWTEST, the buttons show up in normal
> video (black on white) and the values are foreground= 1,
> background= 1, and reverse video = 0.

Either your widget isn't using foreground and background to paint its button or
you have read the values in these variables wrong.  If these colors are pointing
to the same cell in the colormap there is no way to get foreground and
background to be different colors.

ReverseVideo in Xt just replaces XtDefaultForeground with WhitePixel and
XtDefaultBackground with Black Pixel.  If you application has set its forground
default color to "black" rather than to "XtDefaultForeground" then you will get
black on black when you turn on ReverseVideo.   ReverseVideo in the toolkit
always means White on Black it does not mean to swap the foreground and
background colors.

						Chris D. Peterson     
						MIT X Consortium 

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