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From: klee@wsl.dec.com (Ken Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: BadMatch error in XCreateWindow
Message-ID: <2985@bacchus.dec.com>
Date: 9 Mar 90 17:15:05 GMT
References: <6372@orca.wv.tek.com>
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In article <6372@orca.wv.tek.com>, bobtl@toolbox.WV.TEK.COM writes:
> And that it is illegal to image a pixmap into a window if they have different
> depths?
> 
> Does this apply to the window background as well?

The window attributes section (section 3.2, pages 33-34 of the DEC
Press book) of the Xlib manual specifically say that you will get
BadMatch errors if the depths of the background or border pixmaps do
not match that of the window.

Ken Lee
DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif.
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