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From: riches@ist.CO.UK (News reading a/c for riches)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: How do I draw over child windows ?
Message-ID: <376@istop.ist.CO.UK>
Date: 26 Oct 88 11:30:10 GMT
Article-I.D.: istop.376
Organization: Imperial Software Technology, London, UK
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How should I do this in X ??

I want to animate a rubber band box on a window which has got other child
windows sitting on top of it.

The problem is: the rubber band gets clipped by the child windows
(not suprisingly). However, the window manager appears to be able
to get round this; when dragging/resizing windows the rubber box
goes nicely on the front of all the windows.

I've stared at the window manager source, but it hasn't helped a bit !!

I'd appreciate any light that can be thrown on the matter ... thanks.

Mark Riches.