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From: toml@marvin.Solbourne.COM (Tom LaStrange)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: xbiff++ woes
Message-ID: <TOML.91May31174350@marvin.Solbourne.COM>
Date: 31 May 91 21:43:50 GMT
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Sender: toml@solbourne.com (Tom LaStrange)
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In-Reply-To: grantham@super.ORG's message of 31 May 91 19:49:24 GMT

> I grabbed xbiff++ off export.lcs.mit.edu & it compiles fine under SunOS
> 4.1.1 on both sun3 & sun4 architecture.  Whenever it matches a face & tries
> to display the bitmap I have associated with a regular expression, I get:
> 
> X Error of failed request:  BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
>   Major opcode of failed request:  62 (X_CopyArea)
>   Minor opcode of failed request:  0
>   Resource id in failed request:  0x1100009
>   Serial number of failed request:  50
>   Current serial number in output stream:  50
> 
> and xbiff++ dies.

It's because xbiff++ appears to have only been tested on a monochrome system.
I think I simply changed the XCopyArea to an XCopyPlane and it worked.

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(I kid you not)Tom LaStrange        toml@Solbourne.COM