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From: kwh@sei.cmu.edu (Kurt Hoyt)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: String --> Pixel conversions
Keywords: Xt Toolkit
Message-ID: <2877@di.sei.cmu.edu>
Date: 23 May 88 17:09:31 GMT
Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University (Software Engineering Institute), Pgh, PA
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Has anyone else had the X11R2 Xt Toolkit fail to convert String colorname
resources into the corresponding Pixel value? I have a line in my
XtResourceList which looks like this:

	{XtNlineColor, XtCForeground, XtRPixel, sizeof(Pixel),
	 XtOffset(LineObject, line.color), XtRString, "Black"},

The XGetSubresources call correctly converts "Black" to the right pixel
value. However, if an Arg structure like:

	{XtNlineColor, "Green"},

is passed to XtGetSubresources, "Green" is NOT converted to ANY pixel value.
The address of the string "Green" is returned. I expected the value to be
converted. Is this an incorrect expectation?

-- 
Kurt Hoyt, Software Engineering Institute -- kwh@sei.cmu.edu
"From previous research with rendering systems we have learned that a good
dose of gratuitous partial differential equations is needed to meet the
paper quota for impressive formulas." SIGGRAPH '87 Proceedings, p. 73