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Article #24067Re: Is there some way to find out what a BadMatch is about?
From: Donna Converse
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1991 16:41
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1991 16:41
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> Apparently GC's have depth as an invisible > attribute. You can't query it, you can't change it, it's only documented > in the protocol spec, but if it doesn't match your program aborts. Come on, get a good reference manual. You couldn't be using the Xlib reference manual of Scheifler and Gettys "X Window System", or you wouldn't be so frustrated. The description of the XCreateGC interface makes it clear that using a GC with a drawable of different depth results in a BadMatch error.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!dont-send-mail-to-path-lines From: converse@expo.lcs.mit.EDU (Donna Converse) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Is there some way to find out what a BadMatch is about? Message-ID: <9106251641.AA15791@excess.lcs.mit.edu> Date: 25 Jun 91 16:41:03 GMT References: <25654@well.sf.ca.us> Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background) Organization: X Consortium, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science Lines: 9