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From: mgsmith@hplabs.hpl.hp.com (Michael Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Colors, Fonts, & Vararrrrggggghhhhhs!!!!
Message-ID: <5992@hplabsb.hplabs.hpl.hp.com>
Date: 28 Mar 91 16:46:17 GMT
References: <kkirksey.910325144936@lab23.eng.auburn.edu>
Reply-To: mgsmith@hplabsb.UUCP (Michael Smith)
Organization: HPLabs Palo Alto, CA
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>
>title_label	= XtVaCreateManagedWidget (
>		"title_label",
>		labelWidgetClass,
>		base_win,
>			XtNfont, "-*-helvetica-*-r-*-*-14-140-*-*-*-*-*-*",
>			XtNlabel, "ASCII Chart",
>			XtNwidth, 408,
>			XtNbackground, "white",
>		NULL);
>

Because the XtVa function call does not what type to convert from, it
doesn't know which converter to use. Therefore it is assumes that
the type is proper.  You were assigning the string "white" for the backgrouind
when it was expecting a pixel value.  You will hate me for this one but 
there is a way to do it but someone borrowed my documentation and hasn't
returned it yet.  It goes something like:

title_label	= XtVaCreateManagedWidget (
		"title_label",
		labelWidgetClass,
		base_win,
			XtNlabel, "ASCII Chart",
			XtNwidth, 408,
			XtNbackground, XtDoConversion, XmNpixel, XmNstring, "white",
		NULL);

Mail me something in a couiple of days and maybe I will have retrieved
the documentation by then.

Mike Smith
HP Labs