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From: ben@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com (Benjamin Ellsworth)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: XCreateGC vs XtGetGC
Message-ID: <100920219@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com>
Date: 26 May 90 01:24:53 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
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> ...I suspect that I should call XCreateGC in the Realize method for
> the widget, but wanted to know if that was correct.

I don't know precisely what you are trying to do, but for most cases
you are correct.  As I'm sure you are aware, you need a window for
XCreateGC, and you don't have one until the widget is realized.  This
behavior has bit many a beginning widget programmer (myself included).

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