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From: fgreco@govt.shearson.COM (Frank Greco)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Xview: gcm_initialize_colors(), What is it?
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Date: 22 Apr 91 13:44:43 GMT
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> I've got some sample Xview code which has the function
> gcm_initialize_colors(canvas, "black", "white") in it.
> What does this do? I'm at a crucial step in my program
> where I'm switching from Xview to X and I need to know
> the status of my windows as far as size, foreground,
> background. This is not in the Xview manual but it
> seems to run fine. I just don't know what it does.

	This is a function in libguidexv.a which you get
	when you license Sun's OPENLOOK-based UI builder, 
	devGUIDE (btw, you get the src for this lib too).
	It's a way of setting the foreground and background color 
	of an object in XView (btw, panels ignore the background color).

	Unfortunately, the current version of devGUIDE only
	allows the R3 colors, but since you have the src to
	devGUIDE's color-setting routines its pretty
	straightforward to add the R4 ones if you wish.

	Frank G.