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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
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Reply-To: jbs@eddie.MIT.EDU (Jeff Siegal)
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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