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From: garya@stan.com (Gary Aitken)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: default font id
Message-ID: <289@stan.com>
Date: 8 Dec 88 17:25:39 GMT
Organization: Solbourne Computer Inc., Longmont, Co.
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    It's the same old (tired) argument about resource id allocation being
    a client responsibility, there's no a priori id to assign to it, it
    would require special mechanism (deemed unnecessary) to assign an id
    to it.

I understand I'm not supposed to reach into the guts of the X structures.
The code in question is in a toolkit, not an application.

The X documentation states that gcs are scarce resources and should be
reused if possible; it's cheaper to change an attribute than make another gc.
Most supporting hardware agrees with this interpretation.

If a client/toolkit is trying to reuse a gc, changing only those quantities
which are different, it must somehow be able to restore a font to the server
default.  Is there an accepted way to do this?

Otherwise, the only alternative is to keep track of which attribute sets were
created with the default font and using the appropriate default font/known
font gc as appropriate.  Any systems analyst worth ten cents would barf all
over doing this....