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From: mikey@eukanuba.wpd.sgi.com (Mike Yang)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Emulating pixmap with window
Message-ID: <1990Dec5.005912.13695@relay.wpd.sgi.com>
Date: 5 Dec 90 00:59:12 GMT
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In article <1990Nov27.155853.10911@smsc.sony.com>, dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott) writes:
|> An XImage is not a drawable, but it sure would be nice to be able to
|> use Xlib-like drawing routines on an XImage.  For example, it would
|> be nice to be able to draw lines, arcs, polygons, filled polygons,
|> and so forth, and to do other operations on XImages.  Does such a
|> library exist?  (Then again, maybe I missed something obvious...)

What you're describing is a pixmap.  XImage is for client-side data,
whereas pixmaps and windows have their contents known by the server.
Since XImage is for the client, it doesn't make sense to provide
server operations on its contents.

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                 Mike Yang        Silicon Graphics, Inc.
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