> I'm drawing to a canvas which is on one tab of a tabbed folder. I want to do
> draw the drawing in advance of the tab being selected so that it is displayed
> quickly. Unfortunately the X routine XCreatePixmap needs a valid window
> parameter and this precludes the pixmap being created before the window has
> been mapped. It's a sort of catch 22.
Not really. XForms provides a `trailblazer' Window which is
guaranteed to have the same Visual as the form. It is part of the
fl_state[] structure vector. You can point XCreatePixmap at it rather
than the Window.
You can create the Pixmap and then use XCopyArea() to BLT it to the
newly created Canvas Window.
spl
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