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From: jefu@nmt.edu (Jeff Putnam)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: colormaps in widgets
Message-ID: <1991Mar10.220536.21515@nmt.edu>
Date: 10 Mar 91 22:05:36 GMT
Organization: The Museum of Differential Geometry
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Im using Xt and Xaw to build a data display application.  I want to be able
to set up windows showing the data with specific colormaps (not usually
the standard ones).  I'm using a viewport widget with a pixmap containing
the data translated to pixels.  When I create the widget I've been trying
to set its colormap property before creation but it (the colormap) doesnt 
seem to stick.  But I cant do a setwindowcolormap on the widget after I
create it because the window isnt created yet.  And I usually throw away
the widget once I've done the createmanagedwidget call.  

So, I guess the question is, "How do you make a colormap that sticks to
widgets?" 

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jefu@jupiter.nmt.edu  -- Jeff Putnam, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM