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From: asente@adobe.com (Paul Asente)
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Subject: Re: Applying color resources to private colormaps
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Date: 10 Jun 91 19:40:10 GMT
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In article <218@yak.COM> wam3090@yak.COM (Bill Massena) writes:
>I have an application which creates a private colormap, and allocates
>colors in it.  If I put
>
>		*Background:	wheat
>
>in my resource file, a color cell is reserved in the default colormap, in
>a slot which may conflict with an entry in the private colormap.

Not quite.  The color cell is stored in the widget's colormap, whatever it is
at the time the string is converted to a pixel value.  You need to make sure
your colormap is installed in the widget at the very beginning, by specifying
an argument to the creation routine that specifies your private colormap.

	-paul asente
		asente@adobe.com	...decwrl!adobe!asente

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