NAME

imakebackground - makes a process in charge of drawing the background of the window manager screen

SPECIFICATION

C
imakebackground()

FORTRAN
subroutine imakeb

Pascal
procedure imakebackground;

DESCRIPTION

imakebackground is called to register a process as the maintainer of the screen background.  It should be called before getport or winopen.  The process should draw the background and read the input queue.  Every time the process gets a REDRAW token in the queue, it should redraw the background. 

SEE ALSO

getport, winopen
“Multiple Exposure: The IRIS  Window Manager” in the IRIS User’s Guide

NOTE

This command can be used only in immediate mode. 

Version 2.4  —  May 08, 1986