From: mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse)
Subject: Re: XWindows always opaque
Keywords: xwindow, parent-child relation
Organization: McGill Research Centre for Intelligent Machines
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Please don't misuse newsgroup hierarchy names as distributions.

In article <hess.734959172@swt1>, hess@swt1.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Hauke Hess) writes:

> I wonder if it is possible for a parent window to paint over the area
> of its childs.

Yes, but it's not an attribute of the window; it's an attribute of the
GC used to do the drawing.  Set the subwindow-mode to IncludeInferiors
rather than the default ClipByChildren.

					der Mouse

				mouse@mcrcim.mcgill.edu
