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From: gk5g+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Gary Keim)
Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew
Subject: Re: ATK Color Support
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Date: 15 Nov 90 21:41:38 GMT
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Excerpts from misc: 15-Nov-90 ATK Color Support Mark Turner@rchland.ibm.
(1036+0)

> Is there a faster way of using colors?  For any particular window I may
> set foreground 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.

The only way I can see to speed it up would be to not make a call to set
the fore- or background color unless the current settings are not what
you want:

#define myview_ForegroundColor(self) \
self->header.view.drawable->foreName

#define myview_BackgroundColor(self) \
self->header.view.drawable->backName

#define SetForeground(self,foreground) \
if(strcmp(foreground,myview_ForegroundColor(self)) \
myview_SetForegroundColor(self,foreground,0,0,0);

#define SetBackground(self,background) \
if(strcmp(background,myview_BackgroundColor(self)) \
myview_SetBackgroundColor(self,background,0,0,0);

Excerpts from misc: 15-Nov-90 ATK Color Support Mark Turner@rchland.ibm.
(1036+0)

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


Scoll bars get the color that is set for the application via the
preferences *.ForegroundColor & *.BackgroundColor or through the
command-line switches -bg & -fg.

Try 'help cmenu' for info on how to set menu colors.  
Brief synopsis: in ~/.XDefaults add the lines:

*MenuBackground: red
*MenuForeground: blue

There is no programatic way to set the menu colors.