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I am trying to change the text color and I am having no success.
The following code, switches the foreground and background colors
which work ok, but when I type in text, it comes out in the original
color. What am I doing wrong ?

      XtSetArg(args[0], XtNbackground, &(colors[1].pixel));
      XtSetArg(args[1], XtNforeground, &(colors[0].pixel));
      XtGetValues(day_entry[(int) timeslot],args, TWO);

      temp = colors[1].pixel;      /* Swap the foreground and background */
      colors[1].pixel = colors[0].pixel;
      colors[0].pixel = temp;

      XtSetArg(args[0],XtNbackground,colors[1].pixel);
      XtSetArg(args[1],XtNforeground,colors[0].pixel);
      XtSetValues(day_entry[(int) timeslot],args,TWO);

Thanks, jaz@calvin.icd.ab.com