Re: Xaw: Label widget class

Alexander Pohoyda wrote:

>There's a feature to draw a pixmap on the left of a label, but why is
>this done using XCopyPlane(..., 1L) and not XCopyArea() instead?
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Because the original Xaw widget set is an antique, designed when even
televisions were only black and white.

OK, that's a joke, but the sentiment is correct.  It wasn't designed for
color pixmaps.

>I'd very like to have color pixmaps in labels and buttons, which I
>suppose is only possible with XCopyArea() call.  Please correct me if
>I'm wrong.
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Yes, but that's not the only place it will burn you.  Xaw is so
yesterday.  There has been some work at updating it (check for Xaw3d,
XawPlus, or XawXpm), but I suspect you'd be better off moving into the
1990s with something like gtk or Qt.

-- 
Tim Roberts, [email protected]
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.