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From: montjoy@thor.ece.uc.edu (Robert Montjoy)
Subject: 24-Bit Video for SPARC
Organization: University of Cincinnati, ECE Dept
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 16:29:57 GMT


Hi.

We are looking for a 24-Bit Sbus Video Card for a Sparc IPX. This 
card should work with the SUN monitor. This card can only take up
2 Sbus slots(preferably 1).  The price should be in the $ 3000
range.

We have gotten information on the following cards:

	Manu		Card Name
			
	RasterOps 	Sparc TC Card
	VITec 		RasterFLEX 32
	Parallax 	Xvideo 

RasterOps will not work with the current SUN Monitors. They say
the only support 66-HZ monitors. The new SUN monitors are 76-HZ.

Parallax will support all SUN monitors. 

I am not sure about VITec.

Anyhow, has anyone used any of these cards? What is your opinion
of the card? 

Can any one recommend another card? 

Thanks.

-- 
Rob Montjoy                   		- Rob.Montjoy@UC.Edu
Computer Engineer    	      		- montjoy@ucbeh.BITNET
University of Cincinnati      		- montjoy@babbage.ece.uc.edu
Electrical and Computer Engineering	- uunet!uceng!rmontjoy

-- Standards are illusions of many faces.
From: uschi@milton.u.washington.edu (Cindy Halbert)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: PC X servers: INFO needed
Date: 21 Jul 92 17:03:39 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Jul21.170339.24167
Reply-To: virginia@ballou.fish.washington.edu
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle


    I need a PC Xserver that allows X clients and MS Windows apps to
  run simultaneously as well as copy and paste between the two
  applications.

 I've narrowed the list down to 3 products:

   -- HCL- eXceed/W
   -- PC-XView
   -- XVision

  Has anyone used these products?


  virginia         virginia@ballou.fish.washington.edu
               OR  uuset!tsw!virginia
From: pel@ctron.com (Paul Leclerc)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: faking xlock with kill -STOP <X server PID>
Date: 24 Jul 92 15:53:05 GMT
Article-I.D.: pan.PEL.92Jul24115305
	<1992Jul22.203318.24969@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>
Distribution: usa
Organization: Cabletron Systems Inc.
In-reply-to: bucci1@donner.uucp's message of 22 Jul 92 20:33:18 GMT

In article <1992Jul22.203318.24969@porthos.cc.bellcore.com> bucci1@donner.uucp (25853-pastor) writes:

>   What we are looking for is a way to either hide that xterm icon, or to disable 
>   the close ability on it, but still allow users to work with the other 
>   applications with the touch screen.
>
>   Thanks
>
>   Robert Buccigrossi (bucci1@donner.cc.bellcore.com)


There was a program posted to either comp.sources.x or alt.sources
and is on contrib called VR.
This program provided Virtual Rooms for windows.  It achieves that
by using ICCM to make windows (and icons) invisible.  You can use another
ASCII client program to send messages to VR to switch windows.  This could
be used to hide and unhide the console remotely.  Maybe you can't use
that program as-is but you can certainly borrow/steal the technique.

--
pel@ctron.com              #include <disclaimer>
Cabletron Systems Inc.
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: dmoore@cbnewsi.cb.att.com (dana.edward.moore)
Subject: XVIEW: List Glyphs:Colour Depth
Organization: AT&T
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 04:27:14 GMT


I am developing an application in xview which has a control
panel with a look-and-feel very much like the "Binder" supplied 
with Sun's Desktools. [Binder has a scrolling list of applications with 
the application's file manager icon to the left of the  text portion of
the list entry. The displayed icon is fully RGB-coloured and so
is obviously more than 1-bit deep.]

This prompts the following query: does anyone know how they did it?
In all the example code I've seen, and in Heller's Xview text, 
server images used for glyphs seem to be limited to single-bit depth.

As an aside, the Heller Xview manual does talk about full colour in
the section on server images, but not very completely.

A friend suggested that perhaps Sun used the Olit toolkit, which *does*
support this construct, but I find it hard to believe that Sun would 
develop their own tools in something other than Xview.

Thanks in advance for any pearls of wisdom.

Dana Moore AT&T Bell Labs, Columbia MD 301-369-7716
From: rct@fulcrum.bt.co.uk (Richard Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: geographical maps available??
Keywords: maps
Date: 31 Jul 92 10:46:06 GMT
Organization: Fulcrum Communications

In article <1992Jul31.073914.5655@infoac.rmi.de> ascomd@infoac.rmi.de (Ascom Autophon Software GmbH) writes:

>Is there a commercial or free package available or does anyone
>know of an official place, where I can get maps in a computer-
>useable format?? 

ME TOO!!

There must be somebody out there who does this? Autoroute for X????

============================================================================
Richard Taylor                 DoD #981               (rct@fulcrum.bt.co.uk)
"Gentlemen, starta your engines... 2 minutes, to the hills." Massimo Laverda
============================================================================
Fulcrum Communications Ltd., Fordrough Lane, Birmingham, B9 5LD, ENGLAND.
Xref: sparky comp.windows.x:14693 comp.dcom.lans:1877
From: jgregory@pyrnj.UUCP (Jim Gregory)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.dcom.lans,pyr.syseng
Subject: Understanding X-protocol network requirements
Keywords: LANS, X-protocol
Date: 31 Jul 92 14:11:38 GMT
Followup-To: comp.windows.x
Distribution: comp
Organization: Pyramid Technology Corp, Woodbridge, NJ


I am currently in the middle of a heated corporate debate that surrounds the
subject of the relative benefits offered by two solutions to the problem
of delivering X capability to users desktops.


Option #1:    Place X-terminals on the individual office LAN's and 
	      provide connectivity to a large centralized database server 
	      via LAN's and/or WAN's.

Option #2:  Place intelligent workstations and small file servers in all 
	    offices to handle X traffic on the LAN, and provide WAN access 
	    to a relatively small centralized database server.


Those in favor of "option #1" point out the savings in $$ required to deliver
compute capability to the desktop, while those in favor of option #2 claim
that these savings will be dramatically offset by the increased expenses 
incurred to beef up the network to handle the "enormous loads" required to
handle the X-protocol bandwidth requirements.

I understand that there are many issues here such as administration, 
security and economics but for this discussion I  am most interested in the 
network.
 
Is anyone aware of any generic studies that have been done to quantify the
relative network requirements for the two scenario's described above? It
seems to me that many other groups must have been faced with similar decisions
over the past couple of years.

Any information would be appreciated.



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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: kk@unisql.UUCP (Kerry Kimbrough)
Subject: Are you destroyed yet?
Organization: The Internet
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 00:32:10 GMT



What's the politically correct way of determining if a widget is in the
process of being destroyed? Testing core.being_destroyed seems to be the
only way, but isn't this really an illicit peek under the rug?
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: finnm@clas01.cebaf.gov (Michael Finn)
Subject: Memory Leaks with X...
Reply-To: finnm@clas01.cebaf.gov (Michael Finn)
Organization: CEBAF (Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility)
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 19:30:29 GMT

Hi, 
	We are having a problem with an X11R4/Motif Application we have 
written which is heavily graphics intensive.  We have a Memory leak we 
cannot track down and are looking for suggestions on ways to find it, or 
what it might be.  

	Another Question along this line that we have relates to Regions 
in X11.  There is a descrepancy between the way Young and O'Reilly say 
XIntersectRegion work.  An Example in Young's "X Window Systems Programming 
and Applications with Xt" shows the region intersection in the Line:  
	XIntersectRegion(region1, region2, intersection); 
to be created in the routine.  O'Reilly does not say where this region is 
created.  In practice it appears that the region intersection must be 
created with the Line: 
	intersection = XCreateRegion();
	The gist of my question is, what routines will create a passed 
region and what routines require me to create the passes region.  Any 
information on this and other places in X which could account for our 
bleeding memory are greatly welcomed.
	

			- Mike Finn
				finnm@clas01.cebaf.gov

+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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| finnm@clas01.cebaf.gov   |                                                 ||
| CEBAF Hall B Software    |-------------------------------------------------||
|    Working Group         | Disclaimer:  My words do not represent anything ||
+--------------------------\              Whether it be animal, vegetable,   ||
 +--------------------------\             Mineral, or wearing a suit.        ||
                             +-----------------------------------------------+|
                              +-----------------------------------------------;
From: tmcconne@sedona.intel.com (Tom McConnell)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Xw for X11R5 on RS/6000?
Keywords: Xw
Date: 30 Jul 92 17:14:44 GMT
Reply-To: tmcconne@sedona.intel.com
Organization: Intel Corporation
Originator: tmcconne@sedona


  Howdy.

  I have been trying to get the Xw library up on X11R5p12 for the RS/6000. I got
Xw.tar.Z from export, made some cosmetic changes for the location of the include
files, and modified Xw.h so that #defines do not clash with StringDefs.h from
Xt.

  Now I am stuck on this error:

            bsdcc -c -O  -I.. -I../.  -I/stor/x11dev/R5/aix/include  -DSYSV
-DAIXV3     Panel.c
       86 | static XtActionsRec actionsList[] = 0;
            ..................................a...
a - 1506-168: (S) Initializer must be enclosed in braces.
    1506-131: (S) Explicit extent specification or initializer required for an
auto  or static array.
      235 | WidgetClass XwpanelWidgetClass = (WidgetClass)&XwpanelClassRec;
            ...............................a...............................
a - 1506-026: (S) Number of initializers cannot be greater than the number of
aggregate members.
make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 1.


  So tell me: has anyone built Xw under X11R5? I want it for some clients I got
from vernam.cs.uwm.edu from the soft-eng directory.

    Cheers,

    Tom McConnell
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 Tom McConnell          |     Internet: tmcconne@sedona.intel.com
 Intel, Corp. C3-21     |     Phone: (602)-554-8229
 5000 W. Chandler Blvd. | The opinions expressed are my own. No one in 
 Chandler, AZ  85226    | their right mind would claim them.
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: shapiro@spot.Colorado.EDU (Andrew Shapiro )
Subject: X11R5p13 on a Sun-3/60 SunOS 4.1.1 (Server Crash)
Summary: Whenever I startup the server it cannot find "fixed" and crashes.
Keywords: X11R5 Sun 3/60 SunOS 4.1.1 Server Crash
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 00:42:47 GMT

I recently attempted to install X11R5p13 on my Sun 3/60 (SunOS 4.1.1). I
was previously running X11R4 w/o porblems, but I cannot get X11R5 to
even start. I am running a monocrome system through /dev/bw2. If I type:

 % xinit ; kbd_mode -a

I get the following error:

Fatal server bug!
could not open default font 'fixed'
X11: fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) on X server "(null)"
     after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
  ...blah blah blah...

I have tried "xinit -fp /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc". I started the
fontserver and tried "xinit -fp tcp/gooter:7000". I reran mkfontdir in
all of the font directories. I rebuilt the code from a fresh source
tape. I scaned this news group and read the FAQ list. I get the same
error every time. The only glimer of hope is "xinit -fn 6x13" gives the
same error with 'fixed' replaced by '6x13'. The font server responds to
fslsfonts so I know it can find the fonts.

At this point I am stymied.  Please help.

                      Thank You in Advance
                          -- Andrew T. Shapiro
                             (303) 492-5539
                             shapiro@spot.colorado.edu
                             shapiro@cses.colorado.edu
                             andrew@gooter.metronet.org
From: rlb@bsts00.uucp (Ronald (Ron) L. Bolin 3945 snk=)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Recommendation for X11R4 Motif Test Tool
Date: 24 Jul 92 13:45:48 GMT
Organization: BellSouth Services, Switching Technical Support, Altanta, GA 30375

Reply-To: gatech!sbmsg1!bsts00!rlb


I would like to receive e-mail comments on the availability of
a X11 Motif based tool for capture and play back of X11R4 Motif
based applications. I would like something that I could use for regression
testing of X applications - so I will not have to manually enter data and
commands again.


Name and contact number would be helpful if available.


Thank's in advance.

Ron
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: Peter_Imants_Buttuls@mts.ucs.ualberta.ca
Subject: Resources under Openwindows
Organization: The Internet
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 16:07:02 GMT

Under X,  I have the following .Xdefault file which works fine, but does
not when I use it on a Sparcstation running Openwindoes 3. What should the
commands look like in that case? Can anyone point me to a document I can
buy from SUN that tells me how to set resources, or else tell me what man
command to use, because I'm new to Openwindows, having used an SGI in the
past. THANKS.
..............
.............
*VT100.Translations:	#override <Key> F1: scroll-back(1,page)\n\
<Key> F4: scroll-forw(1,page)\n\
<Key> F9: string("DEL") string(0x0d)\n\
 
Peter Buttuls, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
e-mail:(userpib@mts.ucs.ualberta.ca
From: sram@lccinc.UUCP (Siddharth Ram)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Changing Colormap RGB values...
Summary: code for changing colorcell values
	 (useful for transparency)
Keywords: colormap RGB XView
Date: 26 Jul 92 19:22:35 GMT
Distribution: comp.windows.x
Organization: LCC Inc., Arlington VA


In article <549@usafa.af.mil>, hewitt@usafa.af.mil (Joe Hewitt) writes:
> 
> 
> Problem:    How to dynamically change the RGB values in a colormap entry
>             so that all objects using that colormap index automatically
>             change to the new color (in XView or Xlib).
> 
> Request:    I would like to see sample code that changes the RGB
> 			values on the fly.  Can someone help?
> 


for implementing transparency, i used the piece of code below.
trans is the transparecy index (specified thru a motif slider by the user)
in the range of 0.0 - 1.0. rtrans = 1.0 - trans. app1_color is 
the original color of one graphics layer and app2_color that of
the other graphics image overlaid on top. the newly computer colors
are stored in private colorcells, (I am using GXor (oring, not xoring)
as the gc function to copy the two images on top of each other.
Hence i use specific colorcells as decided by the oring of the
original colorcell indices. this scheme is called interpolated
transparency

 for (i = 16; i <= 128; i+=16)
 {
 for (j = 2; j <=8; j++)
  {
  clr.pixel = i|j;
  clr.red = (unsigned short)((float)app1_color[j].red*trans)
	    + (unsigned short )anint((float)app2_color[k].red*rtrans);
  clr.green = (unsigned short )((float)app1_color[j].green*trans)
	    + (unsigned short )((float)app2_color[k].green*rtrans);
  clr.blue = (unsigned short)((float)app1_color[j].blue*trans)
	    + (unsigned short)((float)app2_color[k].blue*rtrans);
 XStoreColor(disp,new_cmap,&clr);
  }
  k++;
  }
 XInstallColormap (disp,new_cmap);
 XSetWindowColormap(disp,XtWindow(W),new_cmap);
 XSync(disp,False);
 return;
 }

there are problems with this scheme. It uses a private colormap and 
screen flashing is a nuisance.

could someone suggest ways of minimizing or getting rid of it ?
has anyone experimented with other ways of implementing transparency ?


siddharth Ram
uunet!hallofjustice!sram
LCC Inc. Arlington VA 22042.
(703)516-7545

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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: mcmahon@tgv.com (John 'Fast-Eddie/FuzzFace' McMahon)
Subject: Re: X Window Security
Reply-To: mcmahon@tgv.com
Organization: TGV Incorporated (Tech Support) in Santa Cruz, CA
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 19:19:33 GMT


In article <1992Jul30.154314.9311@unocal.com>, stgprao@xing.unocal.com (Richard Ottolini) writes:
=Basically there is no security unless you have explicitly turned it on.
=It is not to hard to write a little deamon to eavesdrop on someone's xterm
=session or insert keystroke events into someone's xterm.  For example,
=window managers use event interception to implement their features.

=I am surprised so few serious hacks have been reported so far.

You aren't the only one...

It's important to realize that X windows security even when turned on can be
very weak.  Older version of X only use "Host Access" security.  This only controls which hosts can "touch" your server.  To borrow from the man pages for Xsecurity...  this works well where everyone trusts everyone else, or where you don't have multi-user machines.  Most people are familiar with this
type of security through the xhost command.

There are a variety of good methods available under R5 which can keep your machines reasonably secure.  The problem here is getting users to use security, as opposed to the "ease" of typing "xhost +".

A good thing to read is the man page titled Xsecurity in X11R5.

--
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Santa Cruz, California 95060 ()  Twisted Pair (UTP)"   
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From: william@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (William Cheng)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: One program - two displays - two cursors
Date: 28 Jul 92 04:41:25 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department

In article <1992Jul27.183630.19201@PA.dec.com> klee@wsl.dec.com writes:
>|> How can one program be displayed on the screens of two networked
>|> machines at the same time with two cursors active? Both cursors
>|> independently operated; one by one user and one by the other?
>
>Just open connections to each display.  If you're using the X Toolkit, put
>all the display pointers into the same application context for easy event
>handling.

Could somebody briefly explain how Xt implements this internally (or is
it too involved)?  Thanks!
-- 
Bill Cheng // UCLA Computer Science Department // (310) 575-4507
3564-C Boelter Hall // Los Angeles, California 90024 // USA
william@CS.UCLA.EDU      ...!{uunet|ucbvax}!cs.ucla.edu!william
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: kfw@ecrc.de (Kam-Fai Wong)
Subject: Seeking for Graph and Window Editing package
Organization: European Computer-Industry Research Centre GmbH, Munich, Germany
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 09:40:10 GMT




           Seeking for C Graph and Window Editing Packages
           ===============================================
     
     We are currently implementing a  simulator  and  planned  to
     provide  it  with a user interface system.  To implement the
     interface system we are seeking for software packages  which
     provide  graph  (i.e.  nodes  interconnected with archs) and
     window drawing capabilities.
     
     Our programming language is C; and we'd  like  the  software
     packages  to  be  based  on  Motif.  Do you know if any such
     packages are available in the public domain?
     
     Cheers,
     Kam-Fai
     
     
==============================================================================
	Kam-Fai Wong 			
	European Computer-Industry Research Center (ECRC) GmbH
	Arabellastrasse 17		
	D8000 Munich 81
	Germany
	E-mail: kfw@ecrc.de (INTERNET)
	Tel :	+49 89 92699 203
	Fax :	+49 89 92699 170
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.windows.x.apps,alt.sources
From: kym@bingsunl.cc.binghamton.edu (R. Kym Horsell)
Subject: Re: XPaint 2.0 Beta 2 Release Information
Organization: State University of New York at Binghamton
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 03:35:26 GMT

In article <MEISSNER.92Jul28154617@tiktok.osf.org> meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner) writes:
>In article <1992Jul28.043710.11803@cs.ucla.edu>
>william@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (William Cheng) writes:
>
>| When I try to compile this on a SPARC running SunOS 4.1.1 with version
>| 2.2.2 of gcc, I get the following error messages when compiling Options.c:
>|   /usr/include/stdlib.h:26: conflicting types for `exit'
>|   <built-in>:0: previous declaration of `exit'
>
>Gcc knows about a number of functions builtin type (exit and abort
>among them).  I suspect that GCC and stdlib.h disagree about the
>types.  You can use the -fno-builtin switch to disable all builtins
>(note you need to use at least 2.2.2, since the behavior of
>-fno-builtin in previous releases did not affect exit and abort).  You
>might also want to complain on the gcc bug mailing lists.

You may also re-build all the headers for your machine.

``make fix-includes'' (I think) after installing gcc does it for a Sun. 

The problem is that Sun's header says ``int exit()'' &ct, but gcc wants
``void exit()'' &ct.

-kym
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: ascomd@infoac.rmi.de (Ascom Autophon Software GmbH)
Subject: geographical maps available??
Summary: geograhical maps available??
Keywords: maps
Organization: RMI Net INFO.box Systems * Aachen * Hamburg * Flensburg
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 07:39:14 GMT

Hello out there,

We are currently building an application that shows some kind
of network. Our customer wants to have a map as the background
for such a net-window. 
Is there a commercial or free package available or does anyone
know of an official place, where I can get maps in a computer-
useable format?? 
The best would be something that can easily be integrated into an 
X-application, either a piece of Software to draw the data
or the data in a form that I can do my own drawing.
The data should be available as vectors because I have to scale 
it. 
Maps should cover at least europe and should contain quite detailed
information for each country (not only outlines for countries as
in "The world digitized").

If possible, reply via E-mail
ascomd@infoac.rmi.de

Thanks in advance
   Gerd
Xref: sparky comp.windows.x:14568 comp.windows.x.apps:665 alt.sources:1787
From: warner@natasha.sdsc.edu (Ken Warner)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.windows.x.apps,alt.sources
Subject: Re: XPaint 2.0 Beta 2 Release Information
Date: 29 Jul 92 17:40:59 GMT
Followup-To: comp.windows.x
Distribution: usa
Organization: San Diego Supercomputer Center
NNTP-Posting-Host: natasha.sdsc.edu

I used the following flags and succesfully compiled XPaint with gcc--
however, when I run xpaint (X11r4;Motif 1.1.2, Sparcstation 2) it 
dumps core.  Oh well,...

CFLAGS = -g -ansi -fno-builtin -mfpu -mno-epilogue -Dsparc  

The last flag is a little devious.  math.h includes floatingpoint.h includes ieeefp.h 
which defines an enum with the sparc flag.

Ken Warner
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: jovanov@ceg.uiuc.edu (Dan Jovanovic)
Subject: X-based PostScript editor
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 20:10:55 GMT

Is there any X-based utility that can be used to edit
PostScript files out there? I need something that 
will merge plots, add text, etc. Any help would
be greatly appreciated

-Dan Jovanovic


Newsgroups: comp.windows.x