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From: argv@turnpike.Eng.Sun.COM (Dan Heller)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: XmStringDraw/Pixmap Problem
Message-ID: <142072@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 9 Sep 90 19:34:44 GMT
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In article <14893@gouda.quad.com> carl@quad1.quad.com (Carl Priddy) writes:
> > 	ALL I WANT TO DO IS TO DRAW A (Xm) COMPOUND STRING INTO A PIXMAP.
> > 	WHY IS THERE NO XmWay TO DO THIS? Let me at 'em, c'mon! Let me at 'em!
>  I didn't try XmStringDraw with a pixmap instead of
> window, since the syntax would have said "drawable" if that were possible. 
Upon investigation of the code, it appears that this is treated as a
drawable and it could therefore be a pixmap.  I haven't tried it yet
either (bigger fires to put out).  Can someone try this and summarize
to the net?  Perhaps someone from OSF could make some kind of comment
of the form:

    1) you must use a window because ...
    2) you don't *have* to use a window in the current implementation,
	but we can't support pixmaps in an upcoming release [because...]
    3) you're right -- it doesn't -have- to be a window.
    4) XmStringDraw()?

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dan
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