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From: newsuser@oliver.SUBLINK.ORG (Ugo Cei)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
Subject: Re: Problems with OLIT and the Resource Manager
Message-ID: <922@oliver.SUBLINK.ORG>
Date: 21 Mar 91 23:02:12 GMT
References: <1991Mar19.012032.25951@cbnewsm.att.com>
Reply-To: cei@ipvvis.unipv.it
Organization: Oliver, Pavia, Italy
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mls@cbnewsm.att.com (mike.siemon) writes:

>> Moreover, my buttons are contained
>> in a ControlArea widget, for which I cannot set neither the foreground
>> nor the background, and I am thus forced to have it white.

>Hmmm, this seems strange since that should work. One bug,
>though, is the class name for the ControlArea widget is
>Control, not ControlArea. This is contrary to both the
>documentation and the suggested Xt conventions.

Thank you very much, this was indeed the reason for my not being able
to change it. I have changed my resource file to use Control instead
of ControlArea and now I can set its background, but only if I
specify:

appl*Control*background:	red

whereas if I say:

appl*Control.background:	red

this has no effect (???). This poses a problem, since my ControlArea
widget contains some OblongButtons, whose background is changed to red
even if I say:

appl*OblongButton.background:	blue

I thought that this second specification should override the former,
since it seems more specific, but I am not sure. However, I am still
trying to have a red control area with blue buttons while I only
manage to get either a white control area with blue buttons or a red
area with red buttons. Any help ?

(And please don't flame me for my color choices, they are only for
exemplificative purposes.)
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