Re: glyph problem on mswindows with xpm background

Er, that's like diving into the den of Lions rather than visiting the zoo. 
This has got to be some of the most hairy code in XEmacs. You woul 
dbasically need to step through the code and work out what's happening (and 
going wrong) in redisplay*.c

andy

At 09:19 AM 4/20/2004, Mike Spertus wrote:
>I am having problems with this bug and would be willing to work on fixing 
>it. Is there any information on the bug?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Mike
>
>PS. Andy, I apologize for cc'ing you personally without an invitation but 
>xemacs-winnt looks to be inactive.
>
>Andy Piper wrote:
>
>>This is a known bug that I have never got around to fixing.
>>
>>andy
>>
>>At 03:27 AM 1/1/2002 +0000, Reini Urban wrote:
>>>I wanted to set a nice background.
>>>cygwin xemacs 21.4.6
>>>download some background xpm
>>>
>>>(defun set-my-pixmap (face)
>>>   (set-face-background-pixmap face '(((mswindows default) .
>>>"~/.xemacs/white.xpm"))  'global))
>>>(defun restore-pixmap (face)
>>>   (set-face-background-pixmap face '(((mswindows default) . "gray1"))
>>>'global))
>>>
>>>(mapcar 'set-my-pixmap (face-list))
>>>(mapcar 'restore-pixmap (face-list))
>>>
>>>=> all lines with the line-continuation glyph render a white background and
>>>whiet forground so that these lines are invisible.
>>>seems to be a glyph problem on mswindows.
>>>
>>>how to fix this? how to set another glyph or character for this arrow?
>>>--
>>>Reini Urban
>>>http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/