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Date: 15 Nov 88 19:03:48 GMT
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I have a stupid question and there is probably something simple that I 
am overlooking.

Objective:	Create a scrollable window on which we can place widgets 
		and do simple graphics (i.e. boxes and lines).

	+-----------------------+ \
	|	 _______	|  \
	|	[_______]	|   \
	|	 ___|___	|    \  Viewport
	|	[_______]	|    /
	|	 ___|___	|   /
	|	[_______]	|  /
	+-----------------------+ /
		 ___|___		
		[_______]
		 ___|___		
		[_______]
	    	    |

Problem:	Placing widgets works as advertised, but the graphics
		doesn't stay around. If you do graphics in the viewport 
		and then scroll around, you lose the graphics that have
		been done. You also can't do graphics off of the displayed 
		viewport (almost a necessity).

Solution:	?


Is there anybody out there in X11land that can break the news to me that
it's really simple and "any good C programmer can write useful X applications
in a very short period of time"?

	-Dean Johnson (dtj@caffeine.cray.com or dtj@msc-sc)
	 User Interfaces Group
	 Cray Research, Inc.
	 Mendota Heights, MN