[plt-scheme] MrEd: multiple displays  From: Matthew Flatt
(mflatt at cs.utah.edu) Date: Fri Dec 6 16:19:27 EST 2002  At
Fri, 6 Dec 2002 15:52:57 -0500 (EST), Doug Orleans wrote: > I
guess I'm naive about how X works-- don't you already have to
give > it a display argument when you make a top-level window?
Why is it > that hard to expose this argument to the MrEd top-
level window classes?  Bitmaps are a pain, and they're used a
lot. (Colors are a problem,  When we supported multiple X
displays, we had lots of code to move bitmaps around as needed.
Even designating bitmaps as display-specific (and adding code to
check compatibility) is painful.   Posted on the users mailing
list.