Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ames!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU!jim From: jim@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Jim Fulton) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Best way to clear a PixMap? Message-ID: <8806281630.AA07260@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU> Date: 28 Jun 88 16:30:23 GMT References: <60200002@urbsdc> Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Organization: X Consortium, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science Lines: 10 > What is the best way to clear an X11 bitmap? The XClearArea > function only works on windows. The reason why XClearArea only works on windows is that pixmaps don't have backgrounds, so the notion of "clearing to background" doesn't exist. Set the foreground of a GC to be the pixel value that you want replicated in the pixmap and do XFillRectangle() with a alu function of GXcopy. Jim Fulton MIT X Consortium