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From: tsf@theory.cs.cmu.edu.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Handling ExposeWindow events for nested windows
Message-ID: <1028@theory.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: Thu, 9-Apr-87 10:16:22 EST
Article-I.D.: theory.1028
Posted: Thu Apr  9 10:16:22 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 18-Apr-87 02:38:31 EST
References: <141@dana.UUCP>
Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI
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In article <141@dana.UUCP> mlp@dana.UUCP (Mark Patrick) writes:
>I am implementing a program which makes use of nested windows.  When the
>outermost window is resized (by the user) the application is responsible
>for resizing the subwindows of the main window.  Unfortunately each subwindow
>receives an ExposeWindow event before its parents and when I resize the windows
>they get a further series of ExposeWindow events. 

You might want to look at the source for the bitmap program; it uses a
sneaky kind of recursion to do the job.

I seem to remember reading somewhere that this would be fixed in
version 11.

Tim Freeman

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