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From: asente@adobe.com (Paul Asente)
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Subject: Re: Was None now XtSetValues
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Date: 20 Dec 90 19:31:12 GMT
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In article <3235@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> etaylor@wilkins.iaims.bcm.tmc.edu (Eric Taylor) writes:
>I am sure there are some reasons why Xt calls XClearArea
>instead of just calling the widgets redisplay proc immediately.
>Whatever they are, they don't seem good enough.

The benefits of allowing the widget to just redisplay its visible parts (if
any) were considered to outweigh the cost of the server round trip.

	-paul asente
		asente@adobe.com	...decwrl!adobe!asente