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From: rick@hanauma.stanford.edu (Richard Ottolini)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re:  how can query the values set into a GC ?
Message-ID: <1508@med.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 13 Jun 90 14:37:08 GMT
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In article <9006122247.AA28862@wglen> mo@wglen.UUCP (Dan Mo) writes:
>When you use XCreateGC to create a gc, you have a returned pointer 
>pointing to the gc's structure.  You can use use this pointer to 
>access all info about the gc.  

The contents of structures could change in future implementations of X,
so this is not safe for long term software.  Also some objects are stored
in the server and only the ID is returned.  I don't know if there are
plans to do this with GCs.