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From: fcaggian@kepler.com (Frank Caggiano)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel
Subject: X graphics
Keywords: colors
Message-ID: <436@kepler1.kepler.com>
Date: 12 Sep 90 22:23:27 GMT
Organization: Kepler Financial Mgmt., Setuket, NY
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Can anyone point me in the right direction for getting colors
to work with the Eiffel graphics package.  It appears the hooks
are there but I just can't seem to get it turned on.

Also I feel some concern with the use of numeric constants in
Eiffel.  For example in the x_const.e file the values for the
events are coded in as 
	
		key_press: INTEGER is 2;

with key_press defined in the X include file X.h as 
	
	#define Key_press 2
Now this is the type of coding which has always sent chills up
my spine, for obvious reasons.  Is there any thought of developing
a preprocessor for Eiffel?

I've been having some problems with news here so if this makes it
out could some kind soul email me, thanks.

			Frank 
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