Re: No font when launching a test app

[Andreas Voegele]

Fred Kiefer writes:

> Andreas Voegele wrote:
>> Nicolas Girard writes:
>>
>>>I succeded in compiling & launching the test tool ; i switched to the
>>>sample NSApplication. I had no compilation issue, but when launching it,
>>>and after waiting for the font cache to be built, i ended up with a
>>>"blank" application, i.e. a window containing nothing but a grey button ;
>>>no text even in the button itself.
>> Is the X11 backend broken?
>
> No, the x11 backend isnt broken in CVS, and wasn't, as far as I know,
> in the days before.

It seems that the xlib backend does not set the fore- and background
colours properly.  I can see the text when I explicitly set the
foreground colour to black with XChangeGC() before the text is drawn
with XDrawString().