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From: davy@RIACS.EDU
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Subject: Re: background pixmap in a widget
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Date: 12 Dec 88 17:39:27 GMT
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     From:  Ralph R. Swick <swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
     Date:  Mon, 12 Dec 88 12:06:59 EST
     Subject:  Re: background pixmap in a widget 

     > 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 :-).

Yeah, but...

I didn't really see anything in the manual that said "the default
realize proc just calls XtCreateWindow" or whatever.  It says that a
realize proc should call this, but it doesn't say that's *all* it
needs to do.  Of course, part of the problem might be that I'm just
new to all this widget stuff.

The R3 docs are *much* better than the R2 docs in this respect, but
there could still be a little more.  Maybe O'Reilly or someone will
come out with a "Programing the X Toolkit" and this will all be
resolved anyway...

     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.

Thanks for the tip.

--Dave