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From: swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph R. Swick)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: background pixmap in a widget
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Date: 12 Dec 88 17:06:59 GMT
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> Thanks -- works like a charm.  I made the mistake of looking at ...

awk!  don't look at the implementation, look at the specification.
(I know this is difficult for died-in-the-wool Unix folks, but the X
religion is supposed to be good for others, too :-).

> I do have a suggestion for the next rev of the Xt docs...

point taken.  In most cases, the absense of a method means 'do nothing'.

BTW, don't forget to free your generated resources in a destroy procedure.
Although server resources will usually be freed when a client closes the
connection, it's reasonable for a widget client to create and destroy
a widget multiple times on a single connection.