Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!ria!csd.uwo.ca!zebulon
From: zebulon@csd.uwo.ca (Scott Feeney)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: String to Pixmap conversion?
Keywords: String Pixmap conversion backgroundPixmap Xdefaults
Message-ID: <163@ria.ccs.uwo.ca>
Date: 20 Feb 90 02:16:19 GMT
Sender: news@ria.ccs.uwo.ca
Reply-To: zebulon@csd.uwo.ca (Scott Feeney)
Organization: Computer Science Department - Univ. of Western Ontario
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I follow this group fairly regularly and haven't seen this problem mentioned
so I'm wondering what I'm doing wrong. I am trying to set things up in
my .Xdefaults file so that Athena command widgets have a backgroundPixmap of
(for arguments purposes) gray1. I gather (rightly or wrongly ?) from the
manual that I can give the filename of the bitmap file I wish to be used as
the value for backgroundPixmap and there will be an automagic conversion
of String to Bitmap. The manual talks about String to Bitmap conversion
although the Type required is Pixmap. The server (or whatever) realizes
this and attempts to do the String to pixmap conversion and promptly
throws up the following:

Warning: No type converter registered for 'String' to 'Pixmap' conversion.

Where am I going wrong?

Pertinent data:
X11R4 - Sun 3/60 - SunOS 4.0.3 - gcc-1.35

Xedit*Command*backgroundPixmap: gray1
\____________________________/
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              I realize this _could_ be wrong, but it _does_ try
                 to do the conversion...
              I am also assuming it will look in 
                /usr/include/X11/bitmaps for the file gray1.
TIA

- scott
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Scott Feeney,  Research Associate,  Department of Computer Science
The University of Western Ontario,  London Canada, N6A 5B7
zebulon@csd.uwo.ca, zebulon@uwocsd.UUCP
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