re xwindows always opaque distribution comp please don t misuse newsgroup hierarchy names as distributions in article hess swt hess swt informatik uni hamburg de hauke hess writes i wonder if it is possible for a parent window to paint over the area of its childs yes but it s not an attribute of the window it s an attribute of the gc used to do the drawing set the subwindow mode to includeinferiors rather than the default clipbychildren der mouse mouse mcrcim mcgill edu
