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From: cjmchale@cs.tcd.ie (Ciaran McHale)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: (none)
Message-ID: <1991Mar23.140649.29198@cs.tcd.ie>
Date: 23 Mar 91 14:06:49 GMT
References: <9103192036.AA05386@ism.isc.com>
Organization: DSG, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Trinity College, Dublin.
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In <9103192036.AA05386@ism.isc.com> mlm@uplxts1.UUCP writes:

>Does anyone know where I can find the source to an X contrib program
>called scrawl.
>
>This program allows someone to draw or paint on all windows regardless
>root or anything else. [...] I would really like to see how this works!

I don't have the program, but there is no mystery in writing such a
program. The important thing is to do the drawing with a GC which has
its subwindow_mode set to IncludeInferiors (the default is ClipByChildren)
and then draw into the root window.


Ciaran.
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