On 24 Feb 2000, Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)iskon.hr&gt; wrote: [...] Er. Don't the standard Athena widgets implement the `backgroundPixmap' resource, which you can use to set the background image from the C code? Then Xaw-XPM allows you to set these from X resources, by name, rather than needing to support it in each application, or something. I think. If I am not misreading the Athena and Xaw-XPM stuff. Yes, they could, probably. It's possible, if difficult, to make that happen with most of the controls out there. So long as they don't do /really/ nasty, non standard things with their drawing.[1] Daniel Footnotes: [1] This does involve low-level hacking in the Windows drawing code and stuff, and subclassing someone else's drawing code. Which can be... interesting. -- I was part of that strange race of people aptly described as spending their lives doing things they detest to make money they don't want to buy things they don't need to impress people they dislike. -- Emile Henry Gauvreay