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From: klee@wsl.dec.com (Ken Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: XGetWindowAttributes
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Date: 15 Jun 90 20:55:06 GMT
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In article <4b057b34.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM>, dmm@apollo.HP.COM (Donna
Mcmanus) writes:
|> Has anyone out there ever successfully called XGetWindowAttributes
|> specifying a pixmap id instead of a window id?  O'Reilly & Associates
|> claims that this is permissable

I think O'Reilly is wrong.  Both the MIT Xlib manual and MIT protocol
manual say the request must specify a window (not drawable) ID.

Ken Lee
DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif.
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