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From: klee@wsl.dec.com (Ken Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: porting unstructured graphics code to X
Message-ID: <1991Mar1.215901.3652@pa.dec.com>
Date: 1 Mar 91 21:59:01 GMT
References: <1991Feb25.212501.1776@yogi.fhhosp.ab.ca> <1991Feb26.092358@wsl.dec.com> <1991Feb27.073653@mccall.com> <13601@life.ai.mit.edu>
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In article <13601@life.ai.mit.edu>, sundar@ai.mit.edu (Sundar Narasimhan) writes:
|> Hmm.. You may want to look at the Display widget found in
|> trix.ai.mit.edu:/com/ftp/pub/users/sundar/graph.tar.Z. It attempts
|> to manage Expose events for the programmer

Is this really any simpler than writing your own widget?  Check out
simple widgets like the Athena logo widget.  The bulk of the work in
widgets like this is the Expose semantics, which you must any way.

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Ken Lee
DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif.
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