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From: jim@athsys.uucp (Jim Becker)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: How do I draw over child windows ?
Message-ID: <168@tityus.UUCP>
Date: 1 Nov 88 00:07:44 GMT
References: <376@istop.ist.CO.UK>
Organization: Athena Systems, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA
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From article <376@istop.ist.CO.UK>, by riches@ist.CO.UK (News reading a/c for riches):
> I want to animate a rubber band box on a window which has got other child
> windows sitting on top of it.
> 
> Mark Riches.


	There is a field in the graphics context used while performing
the rendering that allows/disallows this. It is "subwindow_mode". To
set it so rendering will not be clipped in the child windows use the
"IncludeInferiors" flag for the mode, as follows:


	XGCValues	gcvalues;

	gcvalues.subwindow_mode         = IncludeInferiors;


	That lets you render on top of everything subordinate to your
window.


-Jim Becker


Thanks for R3 guys at MIT! Maybe we XNetters can help them take a
break and try to pickup on some of the easy tech questions.. :-)> !!