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Re: WIDGET QUESTION [message #2396 is a reply to message #1496]

Thu, 23 June 1994 11:35

crdmi
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Registered: February 1994

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In article <2ub27g$2cj@news.service.uci.edu>, vshvetsk@fourier.oac.uci.edu (Victor Shvetsky) writes:
> I work with widgets a lot and I noticed that whenever I cover even a prt of
> the draw_widget with any other window (xterm for example) - the image will not
> be refreshed after I come back to it- HOW do I get around it?

You need to set the /RETAIN keyword when you create the widget.

Check the docs, but if I remeber correctly, RETAIN=1 requests the
window manager do the retaining, and therefor is more efficent but may
not work on all window managers, and RETAIN=2 makes IDL do the
retaining.

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