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From: swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph R. Swick)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Changing the default visual for Xt toolkit widgets
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Date: 27 Sep 89 18:11:10 GMT
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In R3 it is not possible to change the default visual for
existing widget classes.  Any widget class which wishes to
offer such a capability can do so in its own realize procedure.

If you were to subclass TopLevelShell and add a resource in this
subclass which provided control of the visual, you could then
cause all the descendants of that shell to inherit the new
visual type.

In R4 the ShellWidget will have such a resource.