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Volume 6A: Motif Programming Manual
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Volume 6A: Motif Programming Manual

by David Brennan, Dan Heller, Paula Ferguson
September 1993
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1014 pages
28h 26m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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XFillRectangle (dpy, pixmap, gc, 0, 0, WIDTH, HEIGHT);
/* don't foreget to reset */
XSetForeground (dpy, gc, BlackPixelOfScreen (XtScreen (widget)));
}
/* Note: we don't have to use WIDTH and HEIGHT−−we could pull the
* exposed area out of the event structure, but only if the reason
* was XmCR_EXPOSE... make it simple for the demo; optimize as needed.
*/
XCopyArea (dpy, pixmap, event−>xany.window, gc,
0, 0, WIDTH, HEIGHT, 0, 0);
}
}
A frequent problem encountered in using the DrawingArea widget is the need to redraw after every Resize event.
When you enlarge the DrawingArea window, an Expose event is automatically generated since more of the window
becomes exposed. But, if you shrink the window, no Expose event is generated since no new part of the window is
being exposed.
The reason why no Expose event is generated when you shrink a DrawingArea widget is deep inside Xlib. The bit
gravity of a window indicates where new bits are placed automatically by X when a window is resized. If you resize a
window larger, then the data in the window remains in the top−left corner and the application gets a Resize event
and an Expose event. The Expose event just identifies the newly exposed area, not the entire window. If you make
the window smaller, all of the data in the window gets pushed to the top left; there is no newly exposed area, so there
is no Expose event.
The solution is to make the window forget about bit gravity, so every Resize event causes all of the bits to be
cleared. As a result, ...
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