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From: wolf@cbnewsh.att.com (thomas.wolf)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Need help with D.Young's example?
Message-ID: <1990Aug21.235152.8328@cbnewsh.att.com>
Date: 21 Aug 90 23:51:52 GMT
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I'm in the process of learning to write my own widgets and have found
Douglas Young's book extremely helpful.  I am curious, however, as to
the following:

In Chapter 12's example of the simple "Dial" widget, some defaults are
set in Dial.c (foreground, indicatorColor, etc.) in the resources[] array.
I found that modifying these defaults and recompiling resulted in the
expected changes at run-time, _except_ when I changed the defauts for
XtNforeground.  No matter what color I specified, the program would always
set the foreground color to "Black" (ie. the little line segments in his
dial widget would always be black.)

If, on the other hand, I specify the foreground color at run-time (with
the command-line option '-fg') it is correctly displayed by the program.

Why is this so?  I have the feeling I'm missing a basic point.
I have the same problem with widgets I've begun to write.  Any help would
really be appreciated,

Tom

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