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From: jg@crltrx.crl.dec.com (Jim Gettys)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: clearing pixmaps
Message-ID: <126@crltrx.crl.dec.com>
Date: 10 Apr 89 14:59:37 GMT
References: <11456@eddie.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: jg@crltrx.crl.dec.com.UUCP (Jim Gettys)
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In article <11456@eddie.MIT.EDU> eric@eddie.MIT.EDU (Eric Van Tassell) writes:
>
>What is the fastest way of clearing (setting all pixels to the background)
>a pixmap? TIA.-- 

Pixmaps don't have backgrounds.  So it doesn't make sense to talk about
it that way.  XFillRectangle will do what you want...  (see Scheifler, Gettys,
Newman, pages 118 and 131).
				- Jim