Graphics/SunView1 question

[Evan Moore]

I'm finally breaking out of my shell and getting ready to do some graphics
work.  I've looked through the SunView Manual and it looks like the stuff
I want to do will be fairly straight forward.  I must say I am impressed
at the general scheme and layout of things.

However, I think I'm misssing something.  I want to have one large logical
canvas for drawing, and several subwindows displaying parts of that
logical canvas.  As far as I can see, this is doable if you use
non-retained pixwins and handle update and repaint on your own.  That
seems terribly complex and unneccessary.  It seem like there should be an
attribute which you can include with the create call which says to use the
same backing pixwin and someother window, but I can't find it.

Am I out in left field ?  Is what I want to do truely hard, so that doing
all the non-retained stuff is a reasonable approach ?

All help appreciated.  Please E-mail, I'll post the interesting stuff.

Thanks

Evan R. Moore
Williams College
91erm at bigbird.cc.williams.edu