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Article #166Re: Drawing into DrawingArea widget
From: Rich Thomson
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1992 06:05
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1992 06:05
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In article <1992Nov6.011714.21164@colorado.edu> devin@frodo.Colorado.EDU (Sonja Orlavski) writes: >You need to be doing these >commands in response to an Expose event (i.e. do an XtAddEventHandler to >your drawing area and put these commands into the event handler). >Otherwise, you're drawing into the window before it's shown up on the >screen. Oh, good point. But there is no need to drop down to the level of XtAddEventHandler; the Motif DrawingArea widget has a redraw callback called XmNexposeCallback. You still need to use the Xt GC management functions, though, or you will end up conflicting with the GCs used by the widget implementation. -- Rich -- Don't blame me; I voted Libertarian Disclaimer: I speak for myself, except as noted; Copyright 1992 Rich Thomson UUCP: ...!uunet!dsd.es.com!rthomson Rich Thomson Internet: rthomson@dsd.es.com IRC: _Rich_ PEXt Programmer
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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.pex Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!orca!mesa!rthomson From: rthomson@mesa.dsd.es.com (Rich Thomson) Subject: Re: Drawing into DrawingArea widget Message-ID: <1992Nov6.060530.13774@dsd.es.com> Sender: usenet@dsd.es.com Nntp-Posting-Host: 130.187.85.21 Reply-To: rthomson@dsd.es.com (Rich Thomson) Organization: Design Systems Division, Evans & Sutherland, SLC, UT References: <100607@bu.edu> <1992Nov6.011714.21164@colorado.edu> Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 06:05:30 GMT Lines: 20