Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!bloom-beacon!pdaeng.UUCP!willson From: willson@pdaeng.UUCP (Stephen Willson) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Changing the default visual for Xt toolkit widgets Message-ID: <8909271536.AA22775@quito.local> Date: 27 Sep 89 15:36:22 GMT Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 29 Hello, We have just received version 1.0 of OpenLook which we are running on Sun-4s and Sun OS 4.0.3. The default visual for the X11/News server is static color. There is another visual which is pseudo color but it is not the default visual. Our problem: all of our widgets get created with the default, static color visual, and we can't find a way to tell Xt that we want to use a different visual. We need the other visual, obviously, so that we can have colormaps installed. We have grep'd the Xt source for X11R3 with fixes 1-9 and it appears that widget creation always inherits the visual of the parent window. We have looked in Oliver Jones' book on Xlib to make sure we understand the mechanics of visuals and colormaps, and we have looked in Doug Young's book on Xt, and, as I indicated we have grep'd the source code. I have also grep'd all the messages I have saved from comp.windows.x (5 MB worth) and I still can't find the answer. The X11/News server from Sun is the first server we have found that has static color as the default visual. Please, if any toolkit experts in netland can send us any suggestions, we would be most grateful. I suspect other people will be running into this soon enough so you may want to post to the net. Thanks in advance, Stephen Clarke-Willson Software Architect PDA Engineering Costa Mesa, CA 92626 714/540 8900 x291 willson@pda.com