On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Mark Vojkovich wrote:
> > > Calling XClearWindow() on the TrueColor window should work just fine.
> > > It's not clipped by covering PseudoColor windows and I'm not aware
> > > aware of any bugs in that code. Sounds like you're saying it doesn't
> > > work anymore. If that's the case, I'll have to take a look at the
> > > code again.
> >
> > To the best of my knowledge, I did precisely that. I created both windows up
> > front, with the PseudoColor window a child of the TrueColor window. I then
> > called
> >
> > XStoreColors() on the PseudoColor window
> > XSetWindowBackground() on the TrueColor window
> > XClearWindow() on the TrueColor window
> > XInstallColormap() of the new Colormap
> >
> > At this point, the new colormap does take effect on the PseudoColor window,
> > but the transparent PseudoColor pixels still show the previous background of
> > the TrueColor window. However, dragging other toplevel windows over and then
> > away again redraws with the new TrueColor background color.
> >
> > For fun I tried XClearWindow() on the PseudoColor window too, but that didn't
> > help, and then I gave up and wrote the prior piece of mail.
> >
>
> I'll look into it. Assuming you're doing everything correctly it
> could be a bug in the mioverlay code or XAA or maybe the cfb8_32 code.
> I'd have thought there would be bigger problems than this if
> XClearWindow didn't work though.
>
OK. It looks like this there might be a bug in the mioverlay
code. I'll look into fixing this for 4.2.0.
Mark.
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