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From: turner+@rchland.ibm.com (Mark Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew
Subject: ATK Color Support
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Date: 15 Nov 90 20:19:43 GMT
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I have some questions about ATK color support.

I have been using patch level 6 with color support for a couple of
months onan RS/6000 with X-Windows Release 3.

I have added some color to one of my applications but I find X paints
thecolored window very slow.  Is there anything I can do to speed up the
colorsupport?  In general this is how I set colors:

To color a rectangle I do this:

myview_SetBackgroundColor(self,self->Color.blockshad,0,0,0);
myview_FillRect(self,&oneword,myview_WhitePattern(self));

To draw a rectangle outline in a foreground color I do this:

myview_SetTransferMode(self,graphic_COPY);	   
myview_SetForegroundColor(self,self->Color.blockborder,0,0,0);
myview_DrawRect(self,&Rect);

Is there a faster way of using colors?  For any particular window I may
setforeground and background colors hundreds of times while painting the
window. Is the slow painting due to the R3 X server? I know R4 is faster.

Also, Is there a way to set colors on menu cards? on scroll bars?

Andy Arhelger
IBM Rochester MN