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From: swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph R. Swick)
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Subject: Re: Background Color Doesn't Work!
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Date: 31 Aug 88 12:23:23 GMT
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     Date:  Tue, 30 Aug 88 23:18:15 -0400 (EDT)
     From:  Yin-Cheng Tsai <yt07+@andrew.cmu.edu>

            I create a composite widget on the toplevel(shell widget). After that, I
     put a text widget and a viewport widget on that composite widget just created.
     Although the XtNbackground property is set before I create the specific widget,
     the backgrounds of the result widgets are still the same as the one of their
     parent widget.

There was a bug in the AsciiText widgets corrected by fix #28 which
should have solved this problem for Text.  The Viewport widget is
supposed to be completely obscured by its children, so it ignores it's
background resource.  This bug will be fixed in the next release.