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From: quasar@krazykat.ctt.bellcore.com (Laurence R. Brothers)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: XView 2.0 bug (?) -- foreground and background colors
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Date: 3 Oct 90 21:08:11 GMT
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As far as I can tell, XView panels ignore the Window.Color.Background
resource described in the XView man page. They also ignore the
-Wb and -g command line options.

Setting the background color of the base frame and FRAME_INHERIT_COLORS
using an Xv_singlecolor value has similar nonexistent effect.

The only way I can find to establish a panel color is to install a colormap
segment for the application (via FRAME_INHERIT_COLORS) or for a specific
panel. Unfortunately, this has the (bug) side-effect of mangling any
menus which may pop up for the panel.

All the above methods work fine for foreground colors.

Any suggestions? 

And another thing -- isn't it stupid not to be able to make the background
color of a panel item different from the background color of the panel?

	         Laurence R. Brothers (quasar@bellcore.com)
      Bellcore -- Computer Technology Transfer -- Knowledge-Based Systems
        "Like dancing oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away"