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Subject: Re: bitmaps and backgrounds
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Date: Thu, 22-Oct-87 22:46:39 EST
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George Sherouse writes:

	I would propose either XSetWindowBackgroundBitmap
	(functionally identical to XSetWindowBackgroundPixmap but taking a
	bitmap as an argument and expanding it internally) and/or
	XMakePixmapFromBitmap (to standardize the expansion technique) be
	added to Xlib.

And Robert Scheifler writes:

 	It probably would be nice if Xlib had an XCreatePixmapFromBitmapData to
	simplify this.
I, too, have proposed adding XCreatePixmapFromBitmapData -- in fact, I
offered to do it a couple of days before the release, but was told,
quite reasonably, that it was too late to put this in to the release. 
I will write the routine and investigate having it added to Xlib; I am
saying this with my X contributor hat on, since I am getting a lot of
flack about continual changes to "frozen software" from my employers...
 I will have to consult them first.

   Hania Gajewska
   DEC WSL