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From: de@comp.lancs.ac.uk (David England)
Newsgroups: net.works
Subject: Re: Dynamic Panel_items in SunWindows
Message-ID: <127@comp.lancs.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 24-Apr-86 07:13:55 EDT
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Posted: Thu Apr 24 07:13:55 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 27-Apr-86 07:22:41 EDT
Reply-To: de@comp.lancs.ac.uk (David England)
Organization: Department of Computing at Lancaster University, UK.
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Thanks for the replies. Apparently I need to call

panel_paint(item, PANEL_CLEAR);

after creating a dynamic item. 

What threw me was the line in the manual (Release 2.0 revision G)
"It is not necessary to call panel_paint() explicitly to control the
repainting of items."

Dave

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