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- From: esr@snark.thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
- Subject: Success! Eureka! Cancel that last post...
- Message-ID: <1jm6zb#0fJwbK4lwpNj8ZzxLR1HQvRg=esr@snark.thyrsus.com>
- Date: 12 Dec 92 10:48:34 GMT
- Distribution: world
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- In <1jl47Z#4zGwVx9MyJTb4OKv6T0lY9bl=esr@snark.thyrsus.com> I wrote:
- > With this posting, I am formally crying uncle. X has baffled and defeated
- > me. I'm an expert C/UNIX programmer and I'm normally very good at picking
- > up new interfaces quickly, but X's is sufficiently complex and this enough
- > of a heisenbug that I can't get a grip on it.
-
- There's good news and bad news.
-
- The good news is that I got an attack of the stubborns, pulled an all-nighter,
- and finally *solved this problem*! My xlife now displays multi-state patterns
- at any cell size. Yeee-ha!
-
- The bad news is that the way I found to make this work was to use a series of
- XFillRectangle() calls in place of a single XFillRectangles(). I now believe
- that there is a bug or undocumented limit in the generic XFillRectangles code
- itself that was causing this problem. 'Ware hackers!
- --
- Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>
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