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From: rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: menu with installed colormap
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Date: 26 Sep 90 12:19:21 GMT
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    In CvtStringToPixel(), if the color string is anything other than
    XtDefaultForeground or XtDefaultBackground then the currently installed
    colormap is used. Why is the currently installed colormap ignored
    for these two strings?

These two values should only be used with the default colormap.  No
other colormap contains "default" pixel values defined for this purpose.

    Is this a bug in the Intrinsics?

It isn't very well documented, but I'd say no.  Now, it may well be a
"misfeature".  I suppose you could argue that these values should
arbitrarily default to something when the colormap isn't the default
colormap, perhaps "black" and "white", or perhaps the result of
looking up two resources in the resource database.  Please note that
the default fg/bg in the default colormap are not necessarily black and
white.  You haven't said what semantics you think should be applied in
the non-default colormap case, so I don't know what you really want.
You're welcome to propose something (whether anyone will really listen,
I don't know :-).