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From: gildea@expo.lcs.mit.EDU (Stephen Gildea)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Displaying a wiget with border disabled.
Message-ID: <9102061947.AA07665@excalibur.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: 6 Feb 91 19:47:48 GMT
Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
Organization: MIT X Consortium
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    ...
    one is to set the borderColor to XtDefaultBackground
    and the other is to set the borderWidth to 0
    
    Which is more preferable/portable ? I prefer the borderWidth
    method, but could run into problems if some X systems ignore
    widths of 0, and use the smallest possible width available (for example,
    use 1 as the width).


They give different results, so you should use the one that gives the
effect you want.  Setting the borderColor still leaves space for the
border.

What makes you think that a border width of 0 is not portable?  Or
that it isn't the smallest possible width?

 < Stephen
   MIT X Consortium