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From: grunwald@foobar.colorado.edu (Dirk Grunwald)
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Subject: Does XGCFromGContext exist?
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Date: 31 Oct 90 05:05:01 GMT
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I know that function

	XGContextFromGC

exists, and, given a GC, I can get the 'gid'.

But I want the reverse mapping. One program passes a window id & 'gid'
to another program. That second program would like to use the window &
graphics context to paint in that window.

Any clues how to do this?

Dirk Grunwald -- Univ. of Colorado at Boulder	(grunwald@foobar.colorado.edu)
						(grunwald@boulder.colorado.edu)