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From: jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: GUIs Considered Harmful
Date: 1 Sep 92 03:32:03 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Mount Holyoke College

Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 22:13:44 GMT
Message-Id: <BtvCEw.D69@mtholyoke.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.religion.computers,comp.windows.misc,comp.windows.news,comp.windows.x,comp.human-factors

In article <Btv1sC.79B@mtholyoke.edu> jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (that's me) writes:
>In article <YANDROS.92Aug30173448@j-g-ballard.MIT.EDU> yandros@Athena.MIT.EDU (Chad Phillip Brown) writes:
>>Personally, I despise OpenLook, just by taste, and find [...]
>
>[...]  But that brings me to a GUI you forgot to
>mention... "Open Windows".  Barf!!!  This has got to be the worst of
>the bunch!  [...]

Ok, I've been advised that Open Windows _is_ (or rather, implements)
Open Look.  At least I and the previous poster were obviously in
violent agreement!  ;-)

Where do they find the people that design these things?

One thing I'd like to add, it has struck me in the past that Apple's
Look-and-Feel copyright suits did massive damage to GUI design.  Not
that Apple's user interface is the best, but it gets hard to design
a good GUI if you first have to look around to see what everyone else
is doing and then come up with something different, just so that it's
different.  I mean, how many ways are there of designing a resizable
window frame?  We're running out of them fast.
--
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From: bmott@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (Bradford Mott)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Fonts for X11R3
Date: 26 Aug 92 03:16:51 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Computer and Technologies Theme Program, NCSU, Raleigh

Date: 25 Aug 92 21:12:43 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Aug25.211243.6941@ncsu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x


	I've got an NCR X-Station that runs X11R3 that I'm working on
setting up, but I can't get the fonts to work.  I'm not really sure
what types of fonts I'm supposed to use.  I set the X terminal up
to use the fonts on a DecStation 5000, but it doesn't seem to like
the fonts (X11R4 system).  Any help will be appreciated!

Please respond by mail.


Thanks,

Brad Mott



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     Bradford W. Mott                               bmott@catt.ncsu.edu 
Vice-President, Computer and Technologies Theme Program, NC State University
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From: sue@byron.u.washington.edu (Shu-Chen Eclipse)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: Hanging X11R4 server under AIX3.2.1
Date: 21 Aug 92 19:56:37 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle

Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 19:11:50 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Aug20.191150.13957@u.washington.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix,comp.windows.x


Hellow,

how do I get my cursors and pointers to blink?
how do I change their sizes?

thanx for answering,
sue@byron.u.washington.edu
From: neptune@icd.teradyne.com (Alan Steele)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: X on PC ?
Date: 25 Aug 92 21:20:31 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Teradyne, Inc. Boston MA

Date: 25 Aug 92 13:38:53 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Aug25.133853.15157@icd.teradyne.com>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

In article 17616@CS.ORST.EDU, laichi@mist.CS.ORST.EDU (Chih Lai) writes:
>
>   Is there any way I can run X window system on my home's PC (or Mac) by a
>19200 modem and telephone line to connect to a UNIX host ?
>
>   Thanks in advance.
>
>--Lai, Chih (laichi@mist.cs.orst.edu)


You will need one of two packages for the PC that support the XRemote
protocol, in addition to XRemote software for the UNIX host.  The two
packages are called PC-XView (distributed by NCD PC-X division) and
XVision (distributed by VisionWare, UniPress, Qualix, others?).

Both packages are quite good; I suggest you order evaluation copies of
both and choose the one you prefer.

There are no XRemote packages available for the Macintosh yet.

-ams

P.S.  Don't even bother trying to use SLIP, C-SLIP or PPP.  It's too slow.
      I know because I tried it.
From: wsinpv@rwb.urc.tue.nl ("P. Verhoeven")
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: How can I make new (large) fonts?
Date: 22 Aug 92 00:37:05 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Workstation Div., Supermicro Systems Group, Sony Corporation

Date: 20 Aug 92 11:04:27 GMT
Message-Id: <wsinpv.714308667@rwb.urc.tue.nl>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x


Hello,

We are writing an editor for mathematical purposes. This editor uses multiple
(proportional) fonts. When new fonts are available they can be added in a
easy way, but we don't have a propper font editor.

So, is there a (good) font editor which can change existing fixed fonts
to proportional fonts or create new fonts and is it possible to make
a new font with more then 256 characters?
Or, is there a way to combine a number of small fonts to one large font?

If the answer to these questions is no, can someone send the structure of 
the bdf-files so we can try to write our own font editor.

We would appreciate all replys that are send to wsinpv@urc.tue.nl or to
this news group.
From: kenny@castle.ed.ac.uk (K J MacDonald)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: mxgdb - Motif dbx
Date: 27 Aug 92 17:26:21 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Edinburgh University

Date: 27 Aug 92 13:25:45 GMT
Message-Id: <25247@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.windows.x.motif

Dear All,
	I downloaded mxgdb Version 1.01 from lancs.ac.uk, but there seem
to be a few bugs in it.

	eg. It won't display ANY source code at all.

	I was wondering if there were any more recent versions out there
? It looks like a nice front end to dbx.

	E-mail me or post, 
		Kenny.

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Kenneth MacDonald		E-mail kenny@castle.ed.ac.uk
Dept. of Geology & Geophysics
University of Edinburgh		Scotland
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From: brown@zen.wes.army.mil (Paul Brown)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: 256 grayscale levels with standard colormap
Date: 2 Sep 92 15:05:25 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Workstation Div., Supermicro Systems Group, Sony Corporation

Date: Wed, 2 Sep 92 09:16:31 CDT
Message-Id: <9209021416.AA08969@zen.WES.ARMY.MIL>




> I'd like to create an X application that draw lines of pixels, with
> color level from 0 to 255 in a Grayscale visual.
> This application has to work either on 8 planes grayscale servers or
> on 24 planes color server.

> My first step was to Create a new colormap, allocate 256 levels of gray
> pixels ( red = green = blue ), and install this colormap .

> ... but other X clients running on the same server do not like this new
> .colormap !

> So , how can I handle 256 gray levels without changing the color map ?
> I suppose that the Visual type has something to do with this ??....

> Many thanx in advance for your help,

> Vincent Le Barazer
> Cray Research France
> Email: vincent@cray.com

I'm told that the average human eye cannot distinguish as many as 256
shades of gray so you may not need to use that many.  In my image processing
application I use 64 shared color mappings (I could go less) and this has
not produced any conflicts with other clients that I use...

Paul Brown
brown@zen.wes.army.mil
From: khera@cs.duke.edu (Vivek Khera)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: Help for thesis
Date: 31 Aug 92 23:19:47 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Duke University CS Dept., Durham, NC

Date: 31 Aug 92 17:33:33 GMT
Message-Id: <KHERA.92Aug31133333@thneed.cs.duke.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.religion.computers,comp.human-factors,comp.windows.misc,comp.windows.news,comp.windows.x

In article <9224419.3450@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> tjm@ecr.mu.oz.au (Trefor_John MORGAN) writes:

   I am currently doing a final year thesis (in Elec Eng) on man-machine
   interfaces, I was wondering if anyone could mail me information on the
   following areas:

	   -history of the development of the original Mac system
		   (and the apple machine that preceded the Mac
		    but failed in the market.)

that would be the Lisa, which when it came out, was less powerful than
the original Mac and cost US$10,000.  it was neat, though.  but if you
want the "original", go look at the work done at Xerox PARC.  Their
commercial system, the Xerox Star, was about the best interface I ever
used for document processing.  absolutely amazing integration between
applications.  the mac still holds nothing to it, except a plethora of
available programs.

	   -your opinions on GUI (what makes a good GUI)

the option to do things the GUI programmer didn't anticipate---
primarily a way to escape to a macro/programming language underneath.


good luck on your thesis.
--
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Vivek Khera, Gradual Student/Systems Guy  Department of Computer Science
Internet:   khera@cs.duke.edu             Box 90129
            (MIME mail accepted)          Durham, NC 27708-0129 (919)660-6528
From: azhao@cs.arizona.edu (Qiang Alex Zhao)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: Xnlock -- bug -- where's its author?
Date: 29 Aug 92 23:08:01 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Computer Science Dept, Univ of Arizona, Tucson

Date: 29 Aug 92 18:41:28 GMT
Message-Id: <21301@optima.cs.arizona.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.windows.x.apps

> On Aug 28,  1:59pm, "Qiang Alex Zhao" wrote:
> |"I met some serious problem in using xnlock -- but my email to the
> |"author, "Dan Heller" <argv@sun.com>, bounced back.

Whoa -- old address.. I'm at argv@z-code.com

> XnLock is not written properly; it queues up all events (proof: start a XClock
> start xnlock, wait 2 mins or so, unlock, see the clock speed up) Your server
> crashes because it runs out of memory. Use xlock instead.
> -- 
> Ronald van Loon (rvloon@cv.ruu.nl) 3DCV Group, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

xnlock does a server grab so that no other application can pop up a
window on top of it.  It just so happens that when you do a server
grab, events queue up on the server (not in the app).  If an X server
runs out of memory because it can't deliver events, who's at fault?
I don't see how it can be xnlock's fault.  If you want to use xnlock
and don't want the grabs, just comment out those two lines in the
source.

  --dan

-- 
= Qiang Alex Zhao		   Computer Science Department
  azhao@cs.arizona.edu             University of Arizona
  (602) 621-1815                   Tucson, AZ 85721
From: tomasc@lionfish.tds.kth.se (Tomas Carlsson)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Finding out the current cursor
Date: 31 Aug 92 09:51:43 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

Date: 31 Aug 92 08:13:57 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Aug31.081357.8161@kth.se>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

How can i obtain the cursor-definition that's used in
a window?

I mean just the graphical representation, not the location.

For instance: if I want to reset the cursor after I have
changed it, and I don't know what cursor was used in the
first place - how do I find out the current cursor before
I change it?

Couldn't find any clues in the FAQ.


Thanks beforehand

Tomas Carlsson
From: miktay@auto-trol.com (Mike Taylor)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: 24 bit cfb
Date: 27 Aug 92 10:08:18 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Auto-trol Technology Corporation

Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 22:03:46 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Aug26.220346.18103@auto-trol.com>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

Hello,

I'm trying to build a server on Sun that supports 24 bit deep pixmaps
using X11R5 code from server/ddx/cfb. According to the porting guide,
I need to change two files: cfbmskbits.h and cfbmskbits.c.

The file cfbmskbits.h contains the following defines:

#define PPW	4             /* pixels per word */
#define PLST	3             /* last pixel in a word (should be PPW-1) */
#define PIM	0x03          /* pixel index mask (index within a word) */
#define PWSH	2             /* pixel-to-word shift */
#define PSZ	8             /* pixel size (bits) */
#define PMSK	0xFF          /* single-pixel mask */

These defines are clearly setup for 8 bit frame buffers only.

Also, the file cfbmskbits.c contains several arrays that might also need
to be changed:

unsigned int cfbstarttab[] =
    {
	0x00000000,
	0x00FFFFFF,
	0x0000FFFF,
	0x000000FF
    };

unsigned int cfbendtab[] =
    {
	0x00000000,
	0xFF000000,
	0xFFFF0000,
	0xFFFFFF00
    };

I tried numerous combinations and am having zero luck. If any one has
tackled 24 bit color frame buffers, or can suggest some values for
the above code segments, I'd sure appreciate hearing from you.

Thanks!
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\__/ /ichael /aylor      | Email: miktay@auto-trol.com  Phone: (303)252-2352
From: rjgg@ihspb.ih.att.com (45261-Gregorich)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: X Terminal Benchmarks
Date: 4 Sep 92 08:01:45 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: AT&T

Date: 3 Sep 92 20:40:20 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Sep3.204020.20844@cbnewse.cb.att.com>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x



I am looking for free software to benchmark X terminals.
If you have done any benchmarks could you please post
them.


 This is the first time i have accessed this news group. 

Thank You,

Bob Gregorich
rjgg@ihspb.ih.att.com
AT&T Bell Laboratories
From: neeri@iis.ethz.ch (Matthias Neeracher)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: GUIs Considered Harmful
Date: 3 Sep 92 21:25:29 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Integrated Systems Laboratory, ETH, Zurich

Date: 3 Sep 92 17:06:19 GMT
Message-Id: <NEERI.92Sep3180619@iis.ethz.ch>
Newsgroups: alt.religion.computers,comp.human-factors,comp.windows.misc,comp.windows.news,comp.windows.x

In article <1992Sep2.171407.11876@news.cs.indiana.edu> "Ken Rawlings" <krawling@banana.ucs.indiana.edu> writes:
>        There are two relatively simple things that I want to do on a Mac that
>I _still_ have no idea how to do, even after reading all of the info-mac
>digests, and using Mac's extensively. 
>
>        #1: Send a postscript file to the printer. Just shove that baby down
>            the serial connection to the printer.

A minor point: Laserprinter are usually *not* connected with a serial (RS-232)
connection, they are networked.

>            No, I don't want to modify
>            it in a word processor, or anything else. Here's the file, across
>            the room is a postscript printer. Send it. I've talked to
>            _numerous_ people that consider themselves "Mac Gods" and they
>            all agreed, "Can't be done without a special program, and I don't
>            know where you'd find it"

Can't be done without a special program, but I know how to find it :-)

ftp to sumex-aim.stanford.edu, file info-mac/util/sendps-20.hqx

Maybe this situation will change in the not-too-distant future (the printing
architecture is one of the oldest and quirkiest part of the Mac), but the
problem with a postscript file is that it is not obvious whether to print it as
a postscript file or as a text file.

>        #2: See this file sitting on the Hard Drive? Execute it. No, I don't
>            care that you think it's a "Document", just trust me and run the
>            damn thing.

Trust me: There is no way it could run, because it is not yet in the correct
Mac format. 

>            This is a _real_ problem when you have a bunch of
>            .hqx files, and have a copy of binhex4.bin that you downloaded
>            with a PC

So convert these .hqx files with Stuffit, or Compact Pro, or tickle. Would you
expect to read uuencoded files on unix without uudecode ?

Matthias

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Matthias Neeracher                                   neeri@iis.ethz.ch
  "... Rice walked out wondering if the world was nothing but wimps,
   pimps, psychos and sex fiends" -- James Ellroy, _Suicide Hill_
From: kelem@xilinx.com (Steve Kelem)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: epoch 4.1 crashes X11R4
Date: 1 Sep 92 03:34:24 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Xilinx Inc.

Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 22:57:39 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Aug29.225739.28272@xilinx.com>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

I'm running epoch 4.1 on a Sparc 2, OS 4.1.1 with X11R4 under motif.
I have two windows, the Minibuffer and a working window, arranged vertically
the working window against the top of the screen, the Minibuffer against the
bottom of the screen and a little space in between the two.

Every once in a while, while I'm typing in epoch, a rectangular area,
containing both epoch windows, AND THE BACKGROUND IN BETWEEN THE TWO WINDOWS,
is erased and the keyboard and mouse are rendered ineffective.  After 10 or 20
seconds the X window system disappears and I'm logged off of the Sun.
A core dump of XSun is left in my home directory.

adb prints the following call trace:
core file = core -- program ``Xsun''
SIGSEGV 11: segmentation violation
$c
_cfbFillBoxSolid(0x0,0xf770f120,0xfffffe86,0xfffffe87,0x0,0xffffffff) + 2a0
_cfbPaintWindow(0xdd7f8,0xc1b90,0x0,0x0,0x0,0x1) + 16c
_miSpritePaintWindowBackground(0xdd7f8,0xc1b90,0x0,0xffffffff,0x1a3,0xbd0e8) +
7
4
_miClearToBackground(0xdd7f8,0xc1b90,0x200,0x2d0,0xfff2,0x0) + 140
_miSpriteClearToBackground(0xdd7f8,0x2,0x200,0x2d0,0xfff2,0x0) + 120
_ProcClearToBackground(0xe2298,0xf4,0x24,0x574,0xdd7f8,0x10c304) + a0
_Dispatch(0xf7ffe998,0x0,0x10000,0xb8d4c,0xe2298,0x10) + 1c4
_main(0x2,0xf7ffec64,0x1,0xae400,0x4,0x1) + 4ac


Does anyone know what the problem is here?
Thanks,
/7\'7  Steve Kelem	(408)879-5347		kelem@xilinx.com
\\ `   Xilinx					FAX: (408)559-7114
//     2100 Logic Drive
\\/.\  San Jose, California 95124
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/7\'7  Steve Kelem	(408)879-5347		kelem@xilinx.com
\\ `   Xilinx					FAX: (408)559-7114
//     2100 Logic Drive
\\/.\  San Jose, California 95124
From: DMAHONEY@vax.micron.com
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: cmd/shelltool questions
Date: 26 Aug 92 16:42:22 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Workstation Div., Supermicro Systems Group, Sony Corporation

Message-Id: <9208261507.AA11986@microndns.micron.com>
Date: Wed, 26 AUG 92 08:35:29 MDT

 
 
I am working on window applications for a Sparc IPC (4.1.x, OW2, olwm)
that is the front-end interface to a production machine.  As such, my 
"user" is completely unsophisticated, barely versed with computers, 
much less Unix or X.
 
I have an application, a script, that uses shelltool, but invariably an
operator either closes the window into an icon (and wonders why the
machine seems to loop) or the operator quits the window before the proper
data is entered.  I've been considering switching this application to 
an Xview program, using a popup window and a data check that pops the window
back up if the data is wrong (or missing).  Unfortunately, a popup window
doesn't really allow you to force feed the user and opening up a popup window
(and its respective data check) for each of several options is not doable,

again due to the confusion of the operators.
 
Is there any way to run a force-feeding (step-by-step) script in a popup window?
 
Also, a source of much aggravation is the fact that our only non-cleanroom
access to the Sparcs are ASCII terminals.  Is there anyway to save
a console/cmdtool/shelltool window remotely from an ASCII terminal (using
remotely-issued mouse commands?)  (Actually, the ability to do any
sequence of remote mouse/keyboard commands would be invaluable.)
 
A last problem (irritation) is the curious behavior where if you make
a window "Full" (or double click on the header) and fill the larger window
with text and then make the window "Normal" (ie. small), the text you see
is the text that was at the top of the window, not the stuff at the bottom.
For console and error-logging windows, the most recent data (at the bottom
of the window) is most important and having to drag the scrollbar to the
bottom after every "Full"-"Normal" sequence is irritating.  Is there some

resource that can be set?
 
Thanks in advance for any insight into any of this.  Please respond
by email and if there is sufficient response, I will summarize.
 
--Dale Mahoney
  Micron Semiconductor 			dmahoney@vax.micron.com
  Boise, ID
From: futzi@uni-paderborn.de (Michael Kutzner)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: X-FTP ?
Date: 1 Sep 92 12:06:14 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Uni Paderborn FB 17 Informatik GERMANY

Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 11:53:24 GMT
Message-Id: <FUTZI.92Sep1125324@honi.uni-paderborn.de>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x


>>>>> About X-FTP ?, Luis Ochoa said:

Luis> Is there a X-FTP ?
Luis> I'll like to ftp files without having to type all the time at the FTP
Luis> prompt.

What about FtpTool4.3.

You get it on swdsrv.edvz.univie.ac.at (/x11/contrib/Ftptool4.3.tar.Z)
	      unix.hensa.ac.uk         (/pub/uunet/pub/window-sys/X/contrib/..)
              ftp.uni-paderborn.de     (/pub/unix/X11/more_contrib/ftptool-4.3.tar.Z)
and on other ftp-sites.

Luis> Thanx

Greetings, Michael


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From: tjones@moose.cs.indiana.edu (terry jones)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Problem with dialog widget values in Xaw & Xaw3d.
Date: 31 Aug 92 03:39:23 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington

Date: 31 Aug 92 02:06:11 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Aug30.210619.10865@news.cs.indiana.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

[SPARCstation IPX, X11R5, /bin/cc compiled.]


I am having some odd behavior when trying to set values in Xaw 
dialog widgets. I am doing this with

        static void
        set_dialog_value(w, value)
        Widget w;
        String value;
        {
            Arg arg;
        
            XtSetArg(arg, "value", value);
            XtSetValues(w, arg, 1);
    
            return;
        }


which works fine. 

With 9 dialog boxes (each with a label, a value (assigned with the above), 
and no buttons), things are fine.

When I add a 10th dialog widget and give it a label, it too displays
fine.

When I add a value to this widget (even ""), the values in most of the
rest of the dialog widgets are suddenly empty (at least they are 
displayed that way). This happens with Xaw3d too, though the set of
disrupted values is different.

Worse is to come... I have checked all the values I am passing around
and they all seem fine. I don't *think* I have any memory problems. The
problem I just described is not specific to the particular 10th dialog
widget. I can pick some set of 9, which will work, but then turning on the
10th one's (whichever this happens to be) value reproduces the problem.

If I add
        printf("dialog widget has value '%s'\n", XawDialogGetValueString(w));
to the above function after the XtSetValues() call, the correct strings
are printed for all ten widgets.

In case it matters, the dialog boxes live (with two command widgets) in
a form widget in a popup topLevelShell in the shell returned by 
XtAppInitialize.


I am a complete X novice, so I suspect the problem is mine, but of
course wonder if this is not some sort of memory problem on the other
side of the fence.

I'll try to make a small file that reproduces the problem.

In the meantime, any suggestions would be appreciated.
Terry Jones.


P.S. Thanks to those who helped with the resources problem I posted
     the other day. Things now seem to work as advertised.