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From: sam@uncle-bens.rice.edu (Samuel R Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: a couple o' questions
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Date: 18 Dec 90 14:23:05 GMT
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Reply-To: sam@uncle-bens.rice.edu (Samuel R Johnson)
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hello.  i've been not keeping up wih this group since last summer,
so i apologize if any of this has been covered previously...

two questions:

with Xt, Athena - is there any *clean* way to get a command widget to
display a pixmap?  like, maybe a happy face or a frog or something?

also with Xt, Athena - i realize this is taboo, but sometimes i'd really
like to just draw into a widget with Xlib routines for one reason or 
another.  when i try to do an

   XDrawRectangle(XtDisplay(w),XtWindow(w),XtGetGC(w,0,&val),
      0, 0, width, height);

i get nothing.  thinking that perhaps the colors are set incorrectly (invisibly)
for the widget in its GC, i tried creating my own

   gc = XCreateGC(XtDisplay(w),XtWindow(w),None,NULL); /* defaults */
   XDrawRectangle(XtDisplay(w),XtWindow(w),gc,
      0, 0, width, height);

but still see nothing.  any ideas?

thanks a bunch.

-Sam
sam@owlnet.rice.edu