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From: jgb@ektools.UUCP (Blose)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Invisible foreground
Keywords: Background is visible, not foreground
Message-ID: <2687@ektools.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jun 90 15:11:24 GMT
Sender: jgb@ektools (Joanne Green-Blose)
Organization: Eastman Kodak, Dept. 47, Rochester N.Y.
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I have been struggling with an annoying problem in getting anything in
my windows to display with X.  I am writing an application program which
writes objects to a pixmap.  I then attempt an XCopyArea from the pixmap
to the window, followed by a MapRaised of the window.  It seems that
only the background is visible.  I cannot get the foreground visible at
all.

I've got around this by using XSetWindowBackgroundPixmap and having my
pixmap serve as the background.  However this approach is very limited
(for ex. what if you really do want a background AND a foregound? (not
unreasonable, right?).

Is there some attribute perhaps in the window which could be suppressing
the foreground from being displayed?  I'm using XCreateSimpleWindow to
create my window.  It's parent is root.

Thanks to anyone who can shed some light here!

-Joanne Greene-Blose