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From: jones@kings.wharton.upenn.edu (Christopher V. Jones)
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Subject: XCreateGC vs XtGetGC
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Date: 25 May 90 15:17:33 GMT
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Reply-To: jones@kings.wharton.upenn.edu (Christopher V. Jones)
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I am currently using R3 of the X toolkit and need to use a non-shareable
graphics context for a new widget that I am building.  According to the
Nutshell books, I need to use XCreateGC rather than XtGetGC.  All well
and good.  Except that when should I call XCreateGC.  Originally I
put it in the Initialize method for the widget, but it choked because
the widget was not yet realized.  XtGetGC worked just fine (at least the
GC was created).  I suspect that I should call XCreateGC in the Realize\
method for the widget, but wanted to know if that was correct.

If this is a silly question, my apologies.

Christopher V. Jones
Department of Decision Sciences
The Wharton School
The University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104

215-898-7290

JONES@wharton.upenn.edu