Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!island!cat
From: cat@island.uu.net (Cathleen Greenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: "reverseVideo" attribute when writing widgets
Message-ID: <674@island.uu.net>
Date: 4 Apr 89 20:10:58 GMT
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Reply-To: cat@island.uu.net (Cathleen Greenberg)
Organization: Island Graphics, Marin County, California
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>In X11R3 a couple of new colors were added, XtDefaultForeground and
>XtDefaultBackground.  Depending upon the state of the reverse video
>flag these strings are converted to BlackPixel() or WhitePixel().
>This should provide the functionality that you desire.
>

Is there anyway to override this functionality??
It is a double-edged sword -- ie. a bug and a feature.
also one other thing to note -- if you set foreground and background colors
in your .Xdefaults it causes lots of problems regardless of what the
reverse video flag is set to.