XForms: Colormappery

Steve Lamont (spl@szechuan.ucsd.edu)
Fri, 31 Oct 97 10:44:47 PST

To subscribers of the xforms list from spl@szechuan.ucsd.edu (Steve Lamont) :

> Couldn't the canvas remember whether fl_set_canvas_colormap()
> has been used, and if it has, assume that cleaning up the colormap
> is the user's responsibility? The user made the colormap, so the
> user should be the one to destroy it. The canvas window can be
> closed without freeing the colormap.

Perhaps, but at this late date it would break or at least disarrange a
lot of existing applications which assume that the Colormap would go
away automagically.

spl
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