mimperatore@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Marco Imperatore) (07/19/90)
Can someone tell me if the following is possible and if so, how. A COMPLETELY visible window LARGER THAN ITS PARENT. I need to get around the clipping-to-parent-window restriction. Thanks in advance. -- Marco Imperatore Computer Graphics Lab, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada uucp: mimperatore@watcgl
ekberg@ti-csl.csc.ti.COM (07/20/90)
Marco Imperatore writes on 19 Jul 90 15:34:40 GMT <1990Jul19.153440.755@watcgl.waterloo.edu> > Can someone tell me if the following is possible and if so, how. > > A COMPLETELY visible window LARGER THAN ITS PARENT. I need to get around > the clipping-to-parent-window restriction. The X11R4 version of the protocol specification states the following in the section on the CreateWindow request (it's on page 14 of my version): Output to a window is always clipped to the inside of the window, so that the border is never affected. So the answer is no. The server will always clip a child to the interior part of its parent. If you want window A to have more visible area than window B, then window A must be something other than either a direct or indirect child of window B. -- tom (aisle C-4Q), ekberg@csc.ti.com
ldh@bessel.eedsp.gatech.edu (Lonnie D Harvel) (10/16/90)
Can anybody direct me to a window manager or collection of
routines which will make X more Mac-like (not for me). A
combination of the above will also do. Thanks.
Lonnie
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