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From: stroyan@hpfcso.HP.COM (Mike Stroyan)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: XCreateWindow with different depth
Message-ID: <7320003@hpfcso.HP.COM>
Date: 5 Feb 90 22:43:28 GMT
References: <22095.25c5d523@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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> I tried to XCreateWindow with the depth different from that of its parent, but
> failed. It worked O.K. as long as I changed the depth to that of its parent.
> What's the problem?

Make sure that the window does not inherit any depth dependent attributes
from its parent window.  That includes-

  background_pixmap
  border_pixmap
  colormap
  visual

Mike Stroyan, stroyan@hpfcla.hp.com