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From: per@upnet.se ( Per Agren )
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Graphical Picture conversion,YPP or TIFF  to Sun Raster.
Date: 16 Nov 92 19:24:11 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Workstation Div., Supermicro Systems Group, Sony Corporation

Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 18:53:05 +0100
Message-Id: <9211161753.AA07009@upnet.se>

Hello !!

I need to convert tiff and ypp pictures to Sun raster files. And one demand is that
I should be able to force the pictures to use a colormap that I choose.


Does anyone know about such an application, toolkit or a library that I could use
to implement this.

Or have anyone done something similar ???


Please answer by mail, since I do NOT read this group.


Best Regards
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From: jck@mercury.ncat.edu
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Window update schemes
Date: 19 Nov 92 01:58:06 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: North Carolina A&T State University

Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 21:40:19 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Nov17.214019.2418@mercury.ncat.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.windows.ms.programmer

Ca va bien, mercy.  The phone number I gave you may have been incorrect.
From: yuri@physics.heriot-watt.ac.uk (Yuri Rzhanov)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: XView -> Motif
Date: 18 Nov 92 19:59:21 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Workstation Div., Supermicro Systems Group, Sony Corporation

Via: uk.ac.heriot-watt.physics; Wed, 18 Nov 1992 13:46:22 +0000
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 13:25:26 GMT
Message-Id: <341.9211181325@photon.phy.hw.ac.uk>

Hi netters,

after all these words about XView's death everyone must think
about his programs' afterlife;-). I'm pretty sure that I've
heard about 'XView-to-Motif' converters but cannot recollect
at the moment who's producing this software, who's selling it,
at what price, and what for [:+-). Could someone remind me
about such a thing and share his/her opinion on this product.

With best regards, 
	Yuri

Dr Yuri Rzhanov
Physics Department
Heriot-Watt University
Edinburgh, UK
e-mail: yuri@uk.ac.hw.phy
tel: 031 - 451 3040/3050
fax: 031 - 031 3036
From: mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: Using X over the modem???
Date: 17 Nov 92 12:35:56 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: McGill Research Centre for Intelligent Machines

Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 06:36:12 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Nov10.063612.5941@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

In article <1992Nov8.200137.19985@newstand.syr.edu>, jdlin@rodan.acs.syr.edu () writes:

> I install Linux and Xfree386 on my machine.  After I using the kermit
> and modem to connect to a remote host, I try to execuate a remote X
> application.  But I always got the following error message:

>      window: Base frame not passed the parent window in environment.
>      Cannot create base frame. Process aborted.

That sounds as though you're getting a SunView application rather than
an X application.  Check your path.

However, fixing that won't help much, because kermit over a normal
modem connection is not going to let you run X over it.  You need
connectivity at the network transport level appropriate to whatever the
X applications are trying to use - which on a Sun is probably TCP, for
which you'd need SLIP or PPP or some such on both your machine and the
remote machine.

There do exist protocols for running X over slow lines.  One of them
(XRemote) is, last I heard, being used as the basis for a Consortium
effort to develop a standard for such things; I do not know what the
current state of this effort is, but I'm fairly sure that it's
currently bleeding-edge technology...and if you were ready to get into
that can of worms, you wouldn't have needed to ask what you did.

					der Mouse

			    mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu
From: hippler@mpiahd.mpi-hd.mpg.de
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Problems compiling x-stuff
Date: 16 Nov 92 14:59:19 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Workstation Div., Supermicro Systems Group, Sony Corporation

Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 14:58:09 +0100
Message-Id: <9211161358.AA11018@dxnhd1.mpi-hd.mpg.de>

Hi,
I have a problem compiling xdvi patchlevel 16 on a SUN/SPARC 4.1.2 system.
Below are the error messages. Compiling ghostview showed the same problem.
What's wrong?
Any help welcome.
/Stefan/
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
cc -o xdvi xdvi.o dvi_init.o dvi_draw.o fontfmts.o vf.o util.o font_open.o \
tpic.o -O -I/usr/openwin/include -L/usr/openwin/lib -lXaw -lXmu -lXt -lXext \
-lX11 -lm  
ld: Undefined symbol
   _get_wmShellWidgetClass
   _get_applicationShellWidgetClass
*** Error code 2
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `xdvi'
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From: tummala@usc.edu (Gopala Tummala)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Help... Want to load gif images
Date: 16 Nov 92 01:03:17 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

Date: 11 Nov 1992 20:36:12 -0800
Message-Id: <1dsmvtINNos@sal-sun43.usc.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.windows.x.motif

Hi,

   I need to load up 2 different gif images onto 2 label widgets which are
in the same window.

If anyone has any advice then please contact me directly at :

	tummala@aludra.usc.edu.

I've just started programming in Motif, so sample code would be useful, rather
than jargon about colormaps, Xlib functions etc.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks,
From: marke@fsi-ssd.csg.ssd.fsi.com (Mark W. Easter)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: How can I get button to resize after changing its label?
Date: 19 Nov 92 09:42:15 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: FlightSafety-SSD, Tulsa, OK, USA

Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 19:13:51 GMT
Message-Id: <MARKE.92Nov18141351@fsi-ssd.csg.ssd.fsi.com>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

I'm sure this is an easy question, but I can't find the answer in the
volumes of X documentation that surround me.  I have a simple form
with a button on it.  As a result of user interaction, I change the
button's label text and now the button is no longer large enough to
contain it.  How do I get the button to expand based on the new label
size?

If you can, please respond via email to marke@fsi.com.

Thanks!
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From: garyg@Warren.MENTORG.COM (Gary Gendel)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: DESQ/X Apps
Date: 17 Nov 92 02:22:07 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Mentor Graphics, IC Group

Date: 13 Nov 92 17:36:25 GMT
Message-Id: <1e0p2pINNmud@sdl.Warren.MENTORG.COM>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

In article 28467@fcom.cc.utah.edu, jharvey@csulx.weber.edu (Just me) writes:
>Readers,
>
>I have DESQview/X on the way and am wondering where I can find
>X apps that can be resident on a DOS machine.  Do I usually
>need to compile them first?  For instance, if I want
>to play Xtrek or Xtank, where can I find them to run with DV/X?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Justin Harvey
>City & Borough of Juneau
>
>jharvey@csulx.weber.edu


Unfortuantely, you will have to compile these apps for Desqview/X.  By the way, the
standard D/X release does not come with any X API.  You can use the djgcc compiler
and get the API from the network (qvx101.zip, I think).  This seems to work well.

Here's a question for any D/X programmers:

I was getting drawn lines out of my window.  I traced this back to an XSetDashes
call with an non-zero dash_offset (third parameter) value.  Anyone else have this
problem?  Thanks in advance.

Gary
From: stefans@bauv106.bauv.unibw-muenchen.de (Stefan Schwarz)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: How to generate mouse events from the keyboard in R5
Date: 19 Nov 92 23:21:25 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Universitaet der Bundeswehr Muenchen (Germany)

Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 20:51:29 GMT
Message-Id: <stefans.721515089@bauv106>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

barbour@eagle.fsl.noaa.gov (James W. Barbour) writes:

>Is it possible to genrate mouse movement and click events from the
>keyboard?  I want to do this all the time, not just within one
>application.  I'm willing to use kludges, "usually works" suggestions,
>patches, hacks and whatever might work.

XChangePointerDevice, XChangeKeyboardDevice should do the job
for all applications on your display.

Stefan
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Laboratory for graphical data processing  W-8014 Neubiberg, FRG
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From: oj@miki.pictel.com (Oliver Jones)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: Looking for MPEG applications
Date: 18 Nov 92 01:12:33 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: PictureTel Corporation

Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 14:31:42 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Nov10.143142.1047@miki.pictel.com>
Newsgroups: sci.image.processing,comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.os.ms-windows.apps,comp.windows.x

In article <1992Nov9.200954.29542@pixel.kodak.com> jmoore@pixel.kodak.com (James H. Moore 726-0322) writes:
>I saw a brief reference to MPEG (Motion Picture Experts Group), which was
>defining a standard for digital motion pictures.  The technique that
>they were using was to do differences in the frames.  This would work 
>well for the application that I would like.  Realtime capture and playback
>of a complete screen.

Be careful not to run afoul of some of the basic assumptions of JPEG
and MPEG.

MPEG, and most modes of JPEG, carry out lossy compression.  That is,
the replayed image has slightly different red/green/blue (or YUV)
intensities in the pixels than the original image, but the differences
are small enough such that a continuous-tone image looks acceptable to
the human eye.

However, computer screens (X PseudoColor/StaticColor visual classes,
and VGA images, for example) aren't continuous tone images.  Lossy
compression garbles them pretty badly.  They're more closely related
to laser-printer or FAX images than they are to photographs and motion
pictures.

If you're recording sequences of television images, MPEG might be a
good choice.  To get a look at what it can do, run down to your local
Sears or expensive-gadget store and get a demo of the CD/I (Compact
Disc Interactive) device put out by Phillips.  Some of the motion
pictures in CD/I use 1.15 megabit-per-second MPEG.

Half an hour of MPEG will take a little over half a gigabyte of data.

I don't know of any reasonably priced real-time MPEG encoding
equipment on the market.  Any MPEG encoders currently available
(November 1992) are either slower-than-real-time or costing in the six
figures, at least.  But things are happening fast in this area.

If you're recording what shows up on screen during an interactive
session, you might consider compressing the screen information with
some lossless image compression scheme.

>I am looking for
>applications which would record the output to the screen, which could be 
>"played back". 

Highland Software, Palo Alto, store@hisoft.infocomm.com (no business
relationship to me) has a software package to record and play back X
demos.  Recording is carried out by protocol interposition (a la
xscope).  This may be closer to what you want.  It certainly generates
a more compact recording.


Ollie Jones
From: agranov@techunix.technion.ac.il (Gennady Agranov)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Developing of X-programs without X ?
Date: 18 Nov 92 23:14:54 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Technion, Israel Inst. of Technology

Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 21:35:57 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Nov10.213557.26389@discus.technion.ac.il>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x


                       Hello to everybody!

      I have a little & simple question: I want to develop X-programs
   (let's say Xlib-programs) on PC-AT/286 (MS-DOS) (at home). May be
   somebody knows any library or another simulation software for this
   case. What I mean: I write Xlib-program, link it with my dream and
   have program !

   Thanks to all kind souls, who tell me something about this subject!

   agranov@issue.cs.technion.ac.il
From: mlevin@husc8.harvard.edu (Michael Levin)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: How do I throw a pixmap up on a DecWindows screen at once?
Date: 19 Nov 92 11:09:27 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Harvard University Science Center

Date: 10 Nov 92 20:28:24 EST
Message-Id: <1992Nov10.202825.17325@husc3.harvard.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,comp.os.vms,comp.unix.ultrix,comp.windows.misc,comp.windows.x


     I am a complete novice to X-windows programming (although I know
C and unix and VMS systems programming at an intermediate level). I
need to take a 2-dimensional array of colormap indeces, corresponding
to a rectangular patch of the screen with pixels of different colors,
and throw it up as a window on a Ultrix VAX or a VMS Vax with
DecWindows (no MIT X stuff - just regular out-of-the-box DecWindows)
from a C program. Something like this:
display_in_window(array)
short array[X][Y];
{
   /* here's the part I'm having trouble with */
}

where each element of array[][] will be 0 for black, 1 for white, 2
for green, etc.
   Is there any code anywhere that will show me how to do this? At
least a hint as to which routines I should be looking at (I don't have
a DecWindows manual, but I'll get one if there's no PD code already
around to do this - what's the proper manual called?). If anyone has
any helpful suggestions, please email me at mlevin@husc8.harvard.edu.

Mike Levin
From: oj@miki.pictel.com (Oliver Jones)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: *customization question
Date: 17 Nov 92 08:45:05 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: PictureTel Corporation

Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 14:21:39 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Nov11.142139.1476@miki.pictel.com>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

In article <1992Nov10.173621.21909@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> pjs@euclid.jpl.nasa.gov writes:
>My ~/.Xdefaults contains
>       *customization:                 -color
>and I have
>XUSERFILESEARCHPATH=./%N:/home/pjs/app-defaults/%N:/usr/nav/app-defaults/%N

>I would have expected (wanted) it to check for a Fig-color file in the
>directories specified in XUSERFILESEARCHPATH. 
> Is this a bug or a feature?

Feature. (This is a variant on FAQ # 34, q.v.)  The *-color
customization stuff is implemented using the file search path.  The
default XUSERFILESEARCHPATH, compiled into R5 Xt, is

		<root>/%L/%N%C:\
		<root>/%l/%N%C:\
		<root>/%N%C:\
		<root>/%L/%N:\
		<root>/%l/%N:\
		<root>/%N:

The pathnames contain replacement characters as follows:
	%N		application class name
	%C		customization resource
	%L		language, locale, and codeset (e.g. "ja_JP.EUC")
	%l		language part of %L  (e.g. "ja") 

When you set your own value, you got rid of the %C specs, so Xt is
doing what you're telling it when it ignores your -color files.

Set XUSERFILESEARCHPATH to ./%N%C:./%N:\
       /home/pjs/app-defaults/%N%C:/home/pjs/app-defaults/%N:\
       /usr/nav/app-defaults/%N%C:/usr/nav/app-defaults/%N

There's a good article about this stuff (by David Flanagan, I think)
in the latest X Resource issue.
From: marcus@iiasa.ac.at (Marcus SCHNELL)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: Looking for an Interactive User Interface Builder
Date: 15 Nov 92 20:31:35 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 14:14:31 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Nov8.141431.24606@iiasa.ac.at>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.windows.x.motif

Jerry Whelan (guru@camelot.bradley.edu) wrote:
: 	Try SUIT from UVA.  Send mail to suit@uvacs.cs.virginia.edu
: to find out where to ftp it from.

I'm trying to find some people that have used this Interface builder.
If you have used it, could you please get in contact with me. I have a few
questions regarding SUIT, both general as well as more technical.

Any help is appreciated.

Marcus


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From: jck@mercury.ncat.edu
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: window update policy
Date: 19 Nov 92 03:15:37 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: North Carolina A&T State University

Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 22:03:10 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Nov17.220310.3254@mercury.ncat.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.windows.ms.programmer

Ca va bien, mercy.  The phone number I gave you may have been incorrect.
From: bjl@loki.research.ptt.nl (Ben Lippolt)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: VTX2000 or NCD-19c? Which one do you like better?
Date: 19 Nov 92 03:55:28 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: PTT Research

Date: 18 Nov 92 21:08:32 GMT
Message-Id: <bjl.722120912@freyr>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

Hi,

If you had to choose between DEC's VTX2000 or a NCD-19c, which one do
you prefer? 
 a. in a (non-DEC) Unix environment.
 b. in a VMS/Ultrix environment.

Why?


Thanx for any info.


Ben Lippolt.
From: idf@cs.bham.ac.uk (Ian Fitchet)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: The GC in XCopyPlane
Date: 18 Nov 92 20:17:38 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham

Date: 13 Nov 92 02:30:05 GMT
Message-Id: <IDF.92Nov13023005@fat-controller.cs.bham.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

Hi,

	Being a pseudo-ignoramous I merrily copied the code from
O'Reilly Vol4 involving XCopyPlane.  All was well until I actually
tried the code out on a colour monitor (worked fine on a monochrome -
the XCopyArea bit).  Well, after I realised I had changed the code so
that it used a "copy_gc" instead of DefaultGCOfScreen() I took a
further look.  My "copy_gc"  generated by:

  XGCValues values;
  GC copy_gc;

  values.dashes = 1;
  values.dash_offset = 0;
  values.line_style = LineOnOffDash;
  values.foreground = BLACK;
  values.background = WHITE;

  copy_gc = XCreateGC(display,
		      pixmap,
		      GCForeground | GCBackground,
		      &values);
  
  differed in only two respects from the GC returned by
DefaultGCOfScreen().  Firstly, it had a different gid (== GC id??) and
secondly the values of foreground and background were reversed.

  When I invoked XCopyPlane with my GC I had a BadMatch error.  When I
used the default everything was OK (but in reverse video :-().  What
was worse was that I used XChangeGC to set them to my preferred way
and the code then worked without error.

 I find this behaviour very bizarre and I am at a loss to explain the
reason for the error.  Is the error strikingly obvious or am I just
unlucky?

--
Cheers,

	Ian

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School of Computer Science
Univ. of Birmingham, UK, B15 2TT
From: marcus@iiasa.ac.at (Marcus SCHNELL)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: SUIT experiences wanted!
Date: 18 Nov 92 10:52:07 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

Date: 16 Nov 92 15:33:07 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Nov16.153307.11357@iiasa.ac.at>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

I would like to repeat my call for anyone who as used the SUIT
interface builder to contact me for possibme information
exchange.

There must be somebody out there who was done some development
using SUIT.

If you have some experience with SUIT, PLEASE contact me.

Thanks,

Marcus

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*    Applied Systems Analysis           *
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From: adrian@ora.com (Adrian Nye)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: The GC in XCopyPlane
Date: 19 Nov 92 03:15:38 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Workstation Div., Supermicro Systems Group, Sony Corporation

Message-Id: <9211182254.AA00531@spike.ora.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 16:54:11 +0900


>   When I invoked XCopyPlane with my GC I had a BadMatch error.  When I
> used the default everything was OK (but in reverse video :-().  What
> was worse was that I used XChangeGC to set them to my preferred way
> and the code then worked without error.
> 
>  I find this behaviour very bizarre and I am at a loss to explain the
> reason for the error.  Is the error strikingly obvious or am I just
> unlucky?

Your problem is that the depths don't match.  When you create a GC,
you specify a drawable and the GC matches the depth of that drawable.
If you then use that GC on a drawable of a different depth,
you get an error.

In this case, the pixmap has depth 1, so the GC (the way you created
it) had depth 1, and then you tried to use it on a color drawable (with
depth > 1).  BadMatch.

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From: gildea@expo.lcs.mit.edu (Stephen Gildea)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: merging resource databases
Date: 18 Nov 92 00:18:59 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: X Consortium, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science

Message-Id: <9211172221.AA28359@alex.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 17:21:47 EST

(The original Subject line was "Missing subject header".  Normally I
don't change Subject lines, no matter how silly, in deference to other
users of nn.  But there are limits.)

    [I use XrmMergeDatabase and then smash dpy->db]
           ... since I need to load some resource values from a file used to
    specify some widget resources, such as color and fonts.  These resource
    files are used by a number of clients and to avoid duplicating the values
    in each client's system app-defaults file, they are placed in these files
    and each client loads them itself ...


I'm glad my column in "The X Resource" got at least one person thinking
about their code :-)

In R5 you can use #include in your app-defaults files to point at
these common resources.  Then your client code doesn't need to worry
about the databases at all.

 < Stephen
   MIT X Consortium