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From: dmaustin@vivid.sun.com (Darren Austin - I will not instigate revolution)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
Subject: Re: Colors in XView
Message-ID: <DMAUSTIN.90Dec5140340@vivid.sun.com>
Date: 5 Dec 90 22:03:40 GMT
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In-reply-to: kbj@jupiter.risc.com's message of 4 Dec 90 21:56:17 GMT

In article <8qlyclu@openlook.Unify.Com> kbj@jupiter.risc.com (Ken Johnson) writes:

   How do I get the color the window manager uses for the frame
   border?  I want to get this color and use it to define the
   background of the frame.  I suppose this will set the frames
   background the same as that used by the panels.  At least I
   hope it will.

You can get the same color as the window manager's frame and the
panel by creating a control colormap segment, and setting it on
the frame after it is created.  For example:

	Frame frame;
	Cms   cms;

	...

	cms = (Cms)xv_create(NULL, CMS,
        	CMS_CONTROL_CMS, TRUE,
		CMS_SIZE, CMS_CONTROL_COLORS + 1,
		CMS_NAMED_COLORS, "black", NULL,
		NULL);

	xv_set(frame, WIN_CMS, cms, NULL);


This will set the background of the frame to be the color that
you want.

Hope this helps,
--Darren
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