Re: glyph problem on mswindows with xpm background

Andy Piper wrote:

> 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

Ugh. Do we even know whether it is in XEmacs or if XEmacs is making the 
right call to Windows (and exposing a Windows bug)? I guess I'm still 
willing to fix it if you would be willing to provide me occasional 
strategic assistance.

Mike

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> 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/
>>>
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