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From: kit@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Chris D. Peterson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Using other than the default visual with Xt
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Date: 4 Jan 90 18:23:51 GMT
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> I have a little Xt based program that needs to allocate some color cells.

> For the 'xnews' server, the default visual is StaticColor, but there
> is a PsuedoColor visual available. How do I get my widget hierarchy to
> use *that*  visual when the time comes to 'Realize'?
> My attempts thusfar all result in BadMatch errors.

In R4 all widgets inherit their visual from their parent (by default), and the
Shell widgets have a "visual" resource.  By assigning your new visual to the
Shell widget it should be automatically be picked up by your entire widget tree.


						Chris D. Peterson     
						MIT X Consortium 

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