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From: hoford@sequoia.circ.upenn.edu (John Hoford)
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Subject: drawing on windows not created by your processes
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How can I draw on a window created by anothe processes?

I am trying to have one progam fork/exec another progam
and have the child process draw on one of the parents windows.

I tried to sending the "Window" to it using a pipe. It got the
value but would not draw using it.

Thanks for the help.

				John D. Hoford
				hoford@gynko.circ.upenn.edu