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From: rick@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu (Richard Warner)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.windows.x.apps
Subject: Re: WANTED: Program to play a set of PostScript files in sequence
Date: 12 Aug 92 23:21:29 GMT
Organization: San Jose State University - Math/CS Dept.

buc@leland.Stanford.EDU (Robert Richards) writes:

>NEEDED: A program to display a set of postscript files where each
>        postscript file may be thought of as a frame in a movie.

>When I use "gs" or "ghostview" the processing is too slow.  I need
>something that does all the processing and then can quickly display
>the sequence of files.  Does such a thing exist?

>Thanks for any assistance.

Not that I know of, primarily for the reason that you would need hardware
of the class you list above your sig to run it.  Since PS code goes
through the interpreter -> RIP -> output device you should be able to
do this by writing something that stands between the RIP and the output
device and then quickly plasters it on the display.  gs writes to the
screen straight from the RIP, so what you are seeing is the actual 
processing in action.   One of the machines with an optimized display
PostScript (NeXT, RS/6000) might be a good candidate.

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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: ahj1@quads.uchicago.edu (andrew jaffe)
Subject: xlogout
Reply-To: ahj1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 20:43:01 GMT

Hi!  I'm trying to set up 'xlogout' as a client so that I can hit its
button and quit my session. I've put it in as the last line of my
.xsession, and run 'twm &' in the background before it, but it seems to
restart my session before it finishes the session file. If, instead, I
put 'exec xterm (options)' it works just  fine, requiring an exit in
that window to finish. Hmmm.

Thanks,


-- 
Andrew Jaffe
Dep't of Astronomy and Astrophysics
University of Chicago
ajaffe@oddjob.uchicago.edu
From: mmp@farina.id.macsch.com (Marc M. Pack)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: X10 "onx" font?
Date: 18 Aug 92 18:20:46 GMT
Organization: MacNeal-Schwendler Corp.


Does anyone have anything that recognizes an old X10 font of the "onx" format?
Of course, the best thing to find would be an "onx2bdf" converter, but I'll
even take some documentation describing the format of the file, or a binary
which displays it under X11.


Thanks.
From: fma@cci.dk (Flemming Madsen)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: OpenWindows without a framebuffer (& keyboard)
Date: 21 Aug 92 13:54:51 GMT
Organization: CCI europe, Research and Development

Hello out there .. I am trying to set up a SparcII Server (not Station) as
a soft rip, that will generate screen bitmaps of EPS files for use in fast 
page layout with EPS files. I have some problems however ...

Is it possible to start the OpenWindows on a cpu with just a tty connected.
Ie. no framebuffer and no keyboard/mouse.

I have seen the option -nodev in the complainings from xnews.
This is not documented in the online manual !!??.

Anyway - If I try the -nodev option to xnews(1), it seems to start OK,
but the NeWS (PostScript) interpreter complains about the missing /framebuffer

If I have the framebuffer (cgsix in a SparcII Server) but no keyboard, xinit
complains about the missing keyboard/mouse and exits.

By the way if I have an X-server on say, a 1-bit B/W framebuffer, is it
then possible to work with (unmanaged) windows of larger depth and/or windows
with attached colormaps.

Are there any ways to configure yourself out of these problems.

Any replies will be gratefully received on this newsgroup or the e-mail
address below


Thanks in advance.

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From: gary@gdfwc3 (Gary Bud Melton)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.sys.m88k
Subject: Comments in Imake templates
Date: 12 Aug 92 20:30:09 GMT
Reply-To: gdfwc3!gary@central.sun.com
Organization: General Dynamics, Fort Worth Division

I know this has come up before, but, naturally, I didn't pay attention
then... 

I am trying to piece together imake for our DG Aviions, running DG/UX
5.4.1, X11R4, and GNU cpp version 1.96.  Things seem to work pretty
well, but occasionally I get a preprocessor error which says, for
example:

	xxx.tmpl:40: invalid preprocessor directive name

This always occurs on a comment line, preceded by the /**/# construct.
However, it does not happen with all comments.

Why does this happen with some comments?  Is there a cpp switch I can
use to correct this?  

I have been able to get around it by using the XCOMM define from
X11R5, but several times other users have come to me after a make has
exploded, and it always involves a package whose Imakefile #included
template files local to the package.  I have told them to replace
/**/# with XCOMM, but it would be nice to find a way to build these
packages without changes.

Any help would be appreciated.

Also, if anyone has a config file for DG/UX 5.4, I would like to see
it.

Thanks,

Bud

gdfwc3!gary@central.sun.com
texsun!gdfwc3!gary
From: evol@infko.uni-koblenz.de
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: X11 Release 5 XServer for monochrome NeXTstation
Date: 14 Aug 92 12:57:05 GMT
Organization: University of Koblenz, Germany


Hallo,

I am looking for a X11 Release 5 Xserver for monochrome NeXTstations.
I have tried Pol Poh's Release 5 Port, which is based on on the Xnext port
developed at McGill University and the Xnext color server from Mike Friedel.
This server doesn't support monochrome Screens. I have tried to fix it,
but by now I just see garbage on the screen. Is there any X11 Release 5
Xserver for the monochrome NeXTstation ?


	Randolf Werner
From: azhao@cs.arizona.edu (Qiang Alex Zhao)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: How to write a pixmap to a file?
Date: 16 Aug 92 21:01:53 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept, Univ of Arizona, Tucson


Hi,

I need to store color pixmaps to files. Do I have to convert the
pixmaps to images? How to do that?

Is there any public domain source code to save a image to a file in a
widely-used format?

Thanks in advance.

________________________________________________________________
= Qiang Alex Zhao		   Computer Science Department
  azhao@cs.arizona.edu             University of Arizona
  (602) 621-2759                   Tucson, AZ 85721
From: gene@ponder.csci.unt.edu (Gene De Lisa)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: need help accessing upper 128 font chars
Date: 21 Aug 92 20:02:03 GMT
Organization: University of North Texas, Denton


I need to create text with accented characters.

supposedly this can be accomplished by pressing the meta
key and hitting the corresponding key from the lower 128.
This doesnt work.

The only way I can get them is by using openwindows and
typing at the command line using the sun4 compose key
sequences. this wont work in emacs or vi -- just the
command line. Ive tried to compare the XKeysymDB but
I cant find where openwindows puts it.

The best solution for us would be to not use openwindows.
Is there anyone who can give me a hint where the translations
are being messed up? Ill settle for any key sequence --
compose key or meta.

This is on sun4's, sunos4.1.1, X11R5, motif wm.
The keyboard can be the sparc ipc, an ncd terminal
of a mac using exodus II.
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: bsheng@hpcvcbc.cv.hp.com (Ben Sheng)
Subject: xterm through gateway
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 01:08:56 GMT

Hello all,

	I have a workstation which is connected on an internal network.
So if I want to reach out for the internet, I have to rlogin to a 
gateway workstation. This gateway computer doesn't support x windows.
Is there a way that I can bring in an x window via internet and
just pass through the gateway computer and bring the window directly on
my xterm?

	If anyone knows how to do it, please let know.

Ben

bsheng@cv.hp.com
From: steve@MITL.COM (Stephen Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Problem with button translation in text widget
Date: 17 Aug 92 18:48:54 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Matsushita Information Technology Laboratory, Princeton, NJ
Originator: steve@ginster

I have an asciiText widget with a vertical scroll bar.  I have
translated a double click on button one as follows (summary is the
text widget) :

*summary*translations:	#override		\n\
	<Btn1Up>(2):	select-start() showSelection()

This works fine except when I want to use button one on the scrollbar
to scroll through the window.  In that case nothing happens.  What is
the way out of this problem?
				Steve
				steve@mitl.com
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: raum@isoa3.ba.ttu.edu (Raum Pattikonda)
Subject: Problems in X event handling
Organization: Texas Tech University
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 06:37:20 GMT
X-Posted-From: isoa3.ba.ttu.edu
X-Posted-Through: sol.ctr.columbia.edu




During a display, typical client program recognizes the "expose" event, 
computes the data and sends for display to the X server. For many 
applications such as VLSI circuit layout, editing, construction 
and display may take easily 2 to 3 minutes over a busy network. 
Many applicatons use a default window size to create a window 
which may not be large enough to show the data in detail. Typically 
the user resizes the window as soon as it appears. In such a case 
the expose event is acknowledged two times and the image is displayed 
two times. There is wastage of time and resources. This problem can be 
solved if the clients were written properly to handle asynchrounous
events or if Xlib has a watch dog to look for events asynchrounously 
and take appropriate action. In our example the the watch dog will 
peek and detect the second expose event before the action is taken for 
first expose event and will make client discard the first expose event. 

I would like to know if any work has been done in this regard.
Thanks in advance.


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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: william@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (William Cheng)
Subject: Re: Multi page TGIF ?
Keywords: tgif
Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 15:20:04 GMT

In article <66192@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt0963d@prism.gatech.EDU (Deeptendu Majumder) writes:
>I have tried this in past and did not find it to be a very efficient
>and helpful way to get around the problem. I end up running 2, 3 
>copies of TGIF at the same time. Are there some legality issues involved
>in making TGIF multipage ? To me a multipage capabilty would be 
>one of the basic capabilties of any good drawing package and with all
>the other things that TGIF does I do not see the reason behind the
>reluctance of making it multipage..Unless the programming effort
>is beyond what can be put in or some copyright infringement problems.
>
>I am just putting forward my views as a 'HEAVY DUTY' user of the
>package. And I have discussed this need with you once or twice last
>year. I guess when something is good we expect more and more of 
>it..:-)

There is no legal issue in making a multipage tgif.  The main issue is
time, which all of us do not have much of (I'm trying to support text
of any size work, which I consider more important).  I can provide some
basic multipage capability (such as add, delete, next, previous, goto)
with some effort.  I'll consider adding it to the next patch (2.12-p12).
-- 
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
From: burtonl@en.ecn.purdue.edu (lance c burton)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Looking for X-based PC+graphics+disk emulator
Date: 17 Aug 92 01:35:02 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network



   im looking for an X-based PC emulator to run on any or all of
 the following: SPARC SLC, SPARC II, or SGI Iris.

  ideally, the program would include 256k; graphics display
 capability of a CGA, if not better, preferably with monochrome
 options as well; and a mechanism to link direct (i.e. not necessarily
 through DOS, and including booting) disk accessing to a file.

  anybody know of anything like this? even a similar model could help,
 if i can get access to the source code.

 thanks in advance


           . - .
         .   |   .
        .    |    .    lance c burton
       ( - - + - - )   burtonl@ecn.purdue.edu
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From: ash@bombay (Ash Yadav)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Text animation in X
Date: 21 Aug 1992 13:39:33 -0500
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

Hi folks,
	I am looking for some pd x code that will scroll text in a
window eg. like a stock ticker feed. or do more fancy stuff like
split a window with text down the middle and scroll to either side.
Please email me a site where I can pick this up from or mail the
code to me. My email address is ash@gfx.dmg.ml.com

thanx
Ash Yadav
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: azuelos@nuri.inria.fr (Daniel  AZUELOS)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: X11r5 server    for    Sony
Date: 16 Aug 92 09:35:52 GMT
Organization: INRIA * Rocquencourt BP 105 * F-78153 LE CHESNAY CEDEX* France

Where to find an X11r5 server for Sony news3400.
Any idea, or pointer, would be appreciated.

Please reply by mail, and I'll post a sumary if it's interesting.
Thanks for your help.

Dan				:-)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: frank@cis.ohio-state.edu (Frank Adelstein)
Subject: xman garbled text question
Originator: frank@football.cis.ohio-state.edu
Organization: The Ohio State University, Department of Computer and Information Science
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 16:09:48 GMT

Some man pages (for example, XtGetApplicationResources) will have
various parts (like page headers, some bold italic things, and other
stuff) of the text that's garbled.  Scrolling sometimes can make
things worse.  Does anyone know if there's something (patches,
different fonts, ??) that will fix this?  This is X11R5p12 on Sun SLCs
running SunOS 4.1.

Thanks for any information.

--Frank Adelstein.
  frank@cis.ohio-state.edu.
From: wsinpv@rwb.urc.tue.nl (P. Verhoeven)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: How can I make new (large) fonts?
Keywords: font, editor
Date: 20 Aug 92 11:04:27 GMT
Reply-To: wsinpv@urc.tue.nl


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.
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.unix.cray
From: dan@chpc.utexas.edu (Dan Reynolds)
Subject: Problems building X11R5pl16 under UNICOS 6.1
Organization: The University of Texas System CHPC
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 23:08:05 GMT

After patching the release to level 16 and attempting to rebuild
R5 on our Y-MP8/864 running UNICOS 6.1, the build failed in
./fonts/lib/fs trying to compile FSFontInfo.c, viz.:

        cc -O  -I../../.././fonts/include  -I../../../.  -DSYSV -DUSG   -DMALLOC
_0_RETURNS_NULL -c FSFontInfo.c
cc-571 cc: ERROR File = FSFontInfo.c, Line = 64
  The address operator cannot take the address of a bit field.
cc-477 cc: ERROR File = FSFontInfo.c, Line = 66
  An expression is terminated with ")" instead of ";".

TOTAL ERRORS DETECTED IN FSFontInfo.c: 2

cc is version 3.0.1.8 and is a standard C compiler. Anyone else seen
this particular problem? Hints, theories, suggestions to me and I'll
summarize to the net.

Thanks,
-- 
Dan Reynolds                              Internet: dan@chpc.utexas.edu
Systems Group                             Phonenet: (512) 471-2472
Center for High Performance Computing     Snailnet: 10100 Burnet Road
The University of Texas System                      Austin, Texas 78758
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: samborn@lynchpin.mtkgc.COM (Kevin Samborn)
Subject: Re: Capturing stderr output
Organization: The Internet
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 15:40:51 GMT

/\/\ On Wed, 19 Aug 1992 13:52:16 GMT, alan.pearson  said:

   Alan> I'm trying to write an OpenLook front end to a CLI-based tool
   Alan> that we use here, and I'm having problems trying to capture
   Alan> all the text output of the tool for display in a text window.
   Alan> The "normal" output of the tool is captured OK by using
   Alan> popen, but error messages seem to use stderr and end up being
   Alan> displayed on the console window instead. How do I capture the
   Alan> stderr output??

What I would suggest is try these steps: fnctl(F_DUPFD) the stderr and
stdout file descriptors to save the originals, make a pipe(2), close
fileno(stderr) and fileno(stdout), fnctl(F_DUPFD) the write end of the
pipe, requesting fileno(stderr) and fileno(stdout), and attach
XtAddInput (or the corresponding XView routine) to the read end of the
pipe.  That way, anything written to the original file descriptors for
stderr and stdout will come out your pipe.  This will cause a callback
whenever something is written to stdout and stderr.  In the callback,
copy what is there into a text output widget (or whatever).

A few things:
1) it is probably a good idea to signal that output occurred when you
get it, especially if it is sporadic.  "Beeping" is probably not so
good because it does not identify your app.  Otherwise, people tend to
ignore the "output" window.

2) you must set the non-blocking flag on the write end of the pipe, because
if the descriptors fill up, they will block, causing your application
to hang forever.

3) If you crash, you probably want to revert the descriptors back to
their original state, so you can print diagnostics.

good luck,
kevin samborn
--
kevin samborn
Sakura Global Capital
samborn@mtkgc.com
From: stevet@ora.com (Steve Talbott)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Color slides from X images
Date: 20 Aug 92 23:15:46 GMT
Article-I.D.: ora.BtB1yA.D0A
Organization: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.

Are there any products out there to help one get from a color X image or
the corresponding bit map to a color slide or print (or set of color
separations)?  Any means of getting to color PostScript would, of course,
make the task relatively easy.  I've also heard there is some sort of a
device that taps into the RGB lines on one's terminal, displays the
image on a special flat screen in a box, and has a built-in camera to
take a picture--but I haven't been able to track this down.

Thanks for you help.

Steve Talbott
stevet@ora.com
508-263-2899
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: jwjang@baram.kaist.ac.kr (Chang Jin-woong)
Subject: Wanted: Program Manager such as MS-Windows' for X
Originator: jwjang@baram.kaist.ac.kr
Keywords: X, Program Manager
Organization: System Programmer's Association for Researching Computer Systems
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 06:45:14 GMT

Hi Xperts,

I'm looking for PD or commercial program such as MicroSoft's Program Manager.
That is, I want to collect my favorite X clients(xterm, xclock, etc.) into
an icon window, and the clients to be started by double-clicking the icons.

A friend of mine taught me how to use mwm's root menu, but it is somewhat
uneasy to use. And I don't want all clients to be run as background process
in mwm's "icons" window.(But many guys do that.... without knowing that they
are making serious load to the system)

It'll be better if such a program can associate non-X(e.g., curses-based ELM)
applications with appropriate command line which makes the non-X program
run on X.(e.g., ELM icon may be associated with "xterm -e elm")

If such a program is not available yet, I want your opinion whether such
a program will be popular or not.....

Thanx in advance,
Chang Jin-woong
--
Email: jwjang@baram.kaist.ac.kr
Department of Computer Science
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,cs.general
From: Gary McGraw <gem@moocow.cogsci.indiana.edu>
Subject: upgrade from R4 to R5 causes program to crash
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 18:15:40 GMT


I have a homegrown X application that uses Xlib calls.  After
the upgrade from R4 to R5 the program no longer works properly.
I have recompiled to no avail.

The error seems to occur whenever a pop_up window is used.  The
program crashes with the following message:

X Error of failed request:  BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
  Major opcode of failed request:  2 (X_ChangeWindowAttributes)
  Serial number of failed request:  311
  Current serial number in output stream:  417

Can someone clue me in as to why this is happening and how to
fix it?  Direct e-mail responses would be appreciated.  Thanks.

				gem
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From: kahana@aristotle.ils.nwu.edu (Jason Adam Kahana)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Macintosh X server
Date: 13 Aug 92 15:09:03 GMT
Organization: The Institute for the Learning Sciences
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

Can someone suggest a product for the Macintosh which works as an 
X-windows SERVER and can run Motif.  Any info would be much appreciated.


Jason Kahana

--
Predetermined destiny is who I am |  Jason Adam Kahana                 
You got your finger               |  kahana@ils.nwu.edu
On the trigger                    |  Systems Administrator           
Like the Son of Sam.    -B.B.	  |  The Institute for the Learning Sciences
				  !  Northwestern University, Evanston, I
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: klee@wsl.dec.com (Ken Lee)
Subject: Re: Text animation in X
Reply-To: klee@wsl.dec.com
Organization: DEC Western Software Laboratory
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 20:41:24 GMT

|> 	I am looking for some pd x code that will scroll text in a
|> window eg. like a stock ticker feed.

I don't have code to give you, but this should be trivial to
implement.  Every N milliseconds, just redraw the string M pixels to
the left (or right).  Replicate the string as necessary to handle wrap
around.

-- 
Ken Lee
DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif.
Internet: klee@wsl.dec.com
uucp: uunet!decwrl!klee