Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU!kit
From: kit@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Chris D. Peterson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: "reverseVideo" attribute when writing widgets
Message-ID: <8904181811.AA19002@expo.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: 18 Apr 89 18:11:49 GMT
References: <674@island.uu.net>
Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU
Organization: The Internet
Lines: 23


> Is there anyway to override this functionality??

You can always just specify that your default colors are "black" or 
"white" this is not really quite as clean though, and people who use
reverse video will get strange results, as your widget will be the inverse of
all the others. 

> It is a double-edged sword -- ie. a bug and a feature.

Seems to be a reasonable way to do it to be.

> 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.

It will not cause problems. The colors in your resource database will override
these "default" colors.  I fail to see the problem that you seem to
be having with allowing reverse video to be defined this way.


                                                Chris D. Peterson
                                                MIT X Consortium