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From: etaylor@wilkins.iaims.bcm.tmc.edu (Eric Taylor)
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Subject: Re: Was None now XtSetValues
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Date: 28 Dec 90 16:24:37 GMT
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In article <9338@adobe.UUCP>, asente@adobe.com (Paul Asente) writes:
|> 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



How much of the time is an 'active' widget partially or fully obscured?
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