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From: tp@mccall.com (Terry Poot)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: porting unstructured graphics code to X
Message-ID: <1991Feb27.073653@mccall.com>
Date: 27 Feb 91 13:36:53 GMT
References: <1991Feb25.212501.1776@yogi.fhhosp.ab.ca> <1991Feb26.092358@wsl.dec.com>
Reply-To: tp@mccall.com (Terry Poot)
Organization: The McCall Pattern Co., Manhattan, KS, USA
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In article <1991Feb26.092358@wsl.dec.com>, klee@wsl.dec.com (Ken Lee) writes:
>In article <1991Feb25.212501.1776@yogi.fhhosp.ab.ca>,
>henry@yogi.fhhosp.ab.ca writes:
>|> Is there any easy way to port the code so that I can just draw into
>|> a window, and *not* have to worry about redrawing from Expose
>events?
>
>Try using the X Toolkit, with the graphics encapsulated in a widget.
>The X Toolkit will manage your expose events for you.

Of course, you'd still have to write that widget. The other thing you could 
consider is using a higher level graphics package that will manage those low
level considerations for you. Examples would be GKS and PHIGS. 
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