Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!jbs@eddie.MIT.EDU From: jbs@eddie.MIT.EDU Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Input Line Editing Message-ID: <9691@eddie.MIT.EDU> Date: 16 Jul 88 03:21:58 GMT References: <16456@brl-adm.ARPA> <9666@eddie.MIT.EDU> <59697@sun.uucp> <9685@eddie.MIT.EDU> <60146@sun.uucp> Sender: uucp@eddie.MIT.EDU Reply-To: jbs@eddie.MIT.EDU (Jeff Siegal) Organization: MIT EE/CS Computer Facilities, Cambridge, MA Lines: 17 In article <60146@sun.uucp> guy@gorodish.Sun.COM (Guy Harris) writes: >OK, so what happens when "xterm" tries to paint a scrollbar? [on a mythical character based X server] You get a character based scrollbar (Microsoft applications, and possibly others, on PC's do this), assuming the user has the following in the Resource Database: *ScrollBar.width: 1 *ScrollBar.borderWidth: 0 *ScrollBar.foreground: [x] *ScrollBar.background: [y] [x] and [y] are the appropriate character name/values/whatever to make the scrollbar look reasonable. Perhaps [x] could be '#' and [y] could be '.' Jeff