On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 09:43:01PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thursday 25 January 2001 23:53, ha shao wrote: > > A user reported that on arm710 platform, the default foreground > > color of an window is not set. Only background color is set. > > what do you mean by "foreground colour ... is not set"? it would have > to be *something* even if it is garbage. is it "not set" or is it that > both foreground and background colours are set to white? >
His description is that 'text draw without set the foreground color will not show.' I take it that the foreground color is the same as the background color for a new window. > my first exposure to X was using a product called MachTen several years > ago, which was (is) a BSD-based system. i noticed then that my > foreground and background colours would start off being set to white. > Something like this. > > Either the default foreground should be set or not is not important. > > But this inconsistent behavior is very confusing both to users and > > programmers. > > although well known, most programmers don't normally rely on global > variables in c being zeroed. regardless of what the docs say, if you > want a foreground of black and a background of white it's probably > always safer to set them explicitly. > It's true. But it is still confusing when an unsuspected user see the same application works on one architect but not on another one. In this case, the user spent a lot of time on X font, font server, endianness, alignment...to find a clue. Either the default is set or not, the behavior should be consistent, for all Xfree86 system or Debian system. I want to know where this is set and if it is Debian specific. -- Best regard hashao
