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From: mick@coggins.aix.zurich.ibm.COM (Mickey Coggins)
Subject: XTEST is pretty cool
X-Unparsable-Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 21: 38:05 CEsT
Reply-To: ibmpa!chvm1.vnet.ibm.com!mcog@ibminet.awdpa.ibm.com
Organization: The Internet
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 00:42:30 GMT

I've been playing around a little with XTEST, and I like it.
A couple of questions:

1) on which newsgroup is XTEST discussed?
2) is there more documentation for it, other than what is shipped
   in the distribution?
3) are all "boundary values" of the X server tested?  For example,
   does it build bitmaps of the maximum supported size, and try to
   blit them around, and test the outcome?

Thanks,
-- 
Mickey Coggins  mcog@chvm1.vnet.ibm.com or mick@coggins.aix.zurich.ibm.com
                +41-1-436-7274 or +41-1-436-8525 (fax)
                Hohlstrasse 560, CH-8048 Zurich, Switzerland
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: datri@convex.com (Anthony A. Datri)
Subject: Re: -lPW causes problems building R5 on HP 9000/700s
Organization: Engineering, CONVEX Computer Corp., Richardson, Tx., USA
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 01:27:11 GMT
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.

>	#define ExtraLibraries          -lPW

>        cc -o makedepend include.o main.o parse.o pr.o cppsetup.o -O -z    -lPW 
>/bin/ld: Duplicate symbol "fatal" in /lib/libPW.a(fatal.o)
>/bin/ld: Unsatisfied symbols:
>   Error (data)
>/bin/ld: Found 1 duplicate symbol(s)
>*** Error code 1

As I understand it, libPW.a duplicates some symbols that are in libc.
To work around this, explicitly search libPW before libc:

	#define ExtraLibraries		-lc -lPW

I wish these functions were just in libc where they belong (sigh).
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From: bradley@grip.cis.upenn.edu (John Bradley)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: XV and OpenWindows
Date: 25 Jul 92 08:20:38 GMT
Organization: GRASP Lab, University of Pennsylvania

Success!  Through the help of Jeremy Lawrence (jeremy@snrc.uow.edu.au), I've
been able to track down the source of the elusive "XV crashes my OpenWindows
server" bug.

For those of you unacquainted with the problem, suffice it to say that if
you ran XV-2.21 on an 8-bit OpenWindows server, put up an image in the
root window, and then quit XV (leaving the image in the root), the server
would eventually blow up.  As well it should.  I'm surprised this only 
happened to OpenWindows users.

Anyhow, I've put the patch up on export.lcs.mit.edu and ftp.cis.upenn.edu
(the official XV distribution sites), and given how trivial the patch is,
I'll just include it at the end of this message.

If you know of any other anon ftp sites that are distributing XV-2.21, 
*please* do me a favor and put this patch up on them, as well.

Thanks  -  as always, we apologize for the inconvenience.

John Bradley  -  Professional Bit-Twiddler


-------------------------------
The following trivial patch fixes the problem with XV-2.21 (when used
to display a root picture and quit) crashing the OpenWindows X server.

--jhb, 7/25/92




*** xv.c.old	Sat Jul 25 04:04:36 1992
--- xv.c	Sat Jul 25 04:04:52 1992
***************
*** 924,930 ****
      rwcolor = 0;
    }
  
!   XSelectInput(theDisp, rootW, ColormapChangeMask);
  
    /* Do The Thing... */
    MainLoop();
--- 924,930 ----
      rwcolor = 0;
    }
  
!   /* XSelectInput(theDisp, rootW, ColormapChangeMask); */
  
    /* Do The Thing... */
    MainLoop();


Xref: sparky comp.windows.x:14288 comp.windows.x.motif:5174 comp.windows.open-look:3208
From: jones@chpc.utexas.edu (Bill Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.windows.x.motif,comp.windows.open-look
Subject: Open Look/Motif/Athena X interface to ftp
Date: 23 Jul 92 20:16:10 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas System - CHPC

This is an alpha release of xftp a Open Look/Motif/Athena X interface to 
ftp. I have compiled and run it under Ultrix, AIX 3.1.5, AIX 3.2, Convex OS,
Sun OS, Unicos 6.1.4, and IRIX.

The build instructions or in the README file.

It requires at least X11R4.  Motif at version version 1.1.X or better.
Open Look OLIT version 2.1.

The source is available on ftp.chpc.utexas.edu as file
/packages/X/xftp.0.1.alpha.tar.Z.


Bill Jones
jones@chpc.utexas.edu
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: agh@gdwb.oz.au (Andrew Harvey)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: XPaint 2.0 Beta 2 Pixel Info wanted
Date: 30 Jul 92 04:53:20 GMT

Can anyone tell me how to edit individual pixels in xpaint.  I
know you can change the color of items in the palette and inturn
all the pixels of that color will change, but this is not what I
after. I want to be able to pick and change individual pixels.

Any information on how to do this would be most apreciated.

Thanks in advance, Andrew.



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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: hugh@rschp1.anu.edu.au (Hugh Fisher)
Subject: Re: X: User simplicity vs code complexity
Organization: Research School of Chemistry, ANU
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 92 23:56:38 GMT


  The problem of complex development environments to create
  applications that are easy to use seems unavoidable. Try
  picking up all six volumes of Inside Macintosh at once,
  or measure how much space the new Windows 3.1 reference
  manuals occupy on a store bookshelf.

  Having slogged through the Macintosh learning curve and now
  working my way into X, I'd say that X is no harder, and in
  fact 'scales' better as things become more complex. Macintosh
  developers discover that menus are programmed differently
  from scrollbars from buttons from dialogs...Xlib or the X
  Toolkit at least use the same building blocks (windows/widgets)
  for all of these so more of your knowledge transfers.

	Hugh Fisher
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: stephan@nmt.edu (Stephan Witz)
Subject: XAllocColor strangeness
Organization: New Mexico Drek
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 00:11:48 GMT

Hey guys, I've got an odd problem.  I wrote this application about half
a year or so ago, and it preformed marvelously.  However ...

	I recently recompiled the thing after playing with some of the 
	non-graphics algorithms.  I used gcc 2.1 on a Sparc station ipc 
	running X11R5 (patch level 13).  To my supprise, all the neat-o
	color beasties I drew ended up being black.  XAllocColor started
	returning black on all my calls to it.  I checked the input, and
	everything seems to be in order (types correct, no bogus data).
	The earlier calls to XAllocNamedColor work as they should, and
	casual inspection shows no color map madness.

Any ideas?  Drop me a line at:                   stephan@nmt.edu	
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
	"Let he who is without sine throw the first rock."    - Anton
	"The New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology is
	   an institution that I'm proud to be comitted to!"  - Me
From: klute@tommy.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Rainer Klute)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Touchscreens and Multple Pointer Devices
Date: 24 Jul 1992 05:06:52 GMT
Organization: University of Dortmund, Germany
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: tommy
Keywords: touch pointer

In article <1992Jul23.210636.26915@crd.ge.com>, doel@ausable.crd.ge.com
(Michael Doel) writes:
|> In article <5720@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil>, hebo@hp850.mbari.org (Bob
|> Herlien) writes:
|> > I want to add a touchscreen to some X terminals for a control/display
|> app
|> > I'm developing, and I have some general questions about how they're
|> integrated
|> > into an X environment.
|> 
|> [...]
|> 
|> Not having spoke to your vendor, I can only assume that you were a bit
|> misled.  As I understand it, X11Rn (for all n) will only allow one
|> pointing
|> device.  To allow more than one would require a relatively large change
|> to the X protocol (hence X12R1 ?).  In particular, the event structure
|> would
|> need to include a field to indicate which pointing device generated the
|> event.  You can't just add this to X11R5 and still have X11R4 apps
|> working
|> correctly.

You might wish to take a look into the X Input Extension coming with the
X11R5 source distribution. Here some quotes from the documentation, which
you will find in mit/doc/extensions/xinput:

    The design approach of the extension is to define  functions
    and  events analogous to the core functions and events. This
    allows extension input devices and events to be individually
    distinguishable from each other and from the core input dev-
    ices and events .  These functions and events make use of  a
    device identifier and support the reporting of n-dimensional
    motion data as well as other  data  that  is  not  currently
    reportable via the core input events.
    
    ...
    
    The input extension controls access to input  devices  other
    than  the  X  keyboard and X pointer.  It allows client pro-
    grams to select input from these devices independently  from
    each  other  and independently from the core devices.  Input
    events from these devices  are  of  extension  types  (Devi-
    ceKeyPress,  DeviceKeyRelease, DeviceButtonPress, DeviceBut-
    tonRelease, DeviceMotionNotify, etc.) and contain  a  device
    identifier  so that events of the same type coming from dif-
    ferent input devices can be distinguished.
    
    ...
    
    This extension is designed to accommodate new types of input
    devices  that  may  be  added  in  the future.  The protocol
    requests that refer to  specific  characteristics  of  input
    devices  organize  that information by input device classes.
    Server implementors may add new  classes  of  input  devices
    without changing the protocol requests.

I hope this helps.

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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: boggess@flatop.sanders.lockheed.com (Tim Boggess)
Subject: vertical text
Organization: Lockheed-Sanders - Embedded Processor Center
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 19:56:50 GMT

How do I put up vertical text in X?  Thanks in advance.


Tim Boggess
boggess@flatop.sanders.lockheed.com
(603) 885-6392
From: azhao@cs.arizona.edu (Qiang Alex Zhao)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: XUPS update
Date: 27 Jul 92 22:03:23 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept, Univ of Arizona, Tucson

In article <9207271328.AA07952@expo.lcs.mit.edu>, lance@diu.cms.udel.EDU (Dan Lentz) writes:
|> A new version of xups, a UPS monitor for X, is available for ftp from
|> ftp.scripps.edu or ftp.math.psu.edu.  It includes substantial enhancements
|> from the previous version.  What follows is the README file.
|> 
|> [stuff deleted...]

Whoops, I messed it up with the debugger called "UPS". It's great
debugger that happens to have a similar name of this one. ;o)

Does anybody know whether there's any upgrades from the old version
2.31 of the UPS debugger?

________________________________________________________________
= Qiang Alex Zhao		   Computer Science Department
  azhao@cs.arizona.edu             University of Arizona
  (602) 621-2759                   Tucson, AZ 85721
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.windows.x.motif,comp.unix.questions
From: fmbutt@engage.sps.mot.com (Farooq M. Butt)
Subject: GUI "wrapper" toolkits... Any favorites ? 
Organization: Motorola RISC Software, Austin, TX
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 20:25:26 GMT

Net.window-whizzes:

I need to wrap TTY-based interactive tools for use under X11R5 (preferably 
OSF/Motif).  Does anybody out in netland have advice regarding 
good/bad tools to do this wrapping.  I might be dreaming but what I am 
looking for is something akin to the NeXT interface-builder stuff where 
I can do prototyping interactively on the screen. Any info. no matter 
how apparently insignificant will be treasured, I promise :-) 

Please reply via email and I shall summarize if there's interest...

fmb 


(PS: one of the tools is GDB, is there a good Motif wrapper that 
actually _works_ ? I tried mxgdb on both a DGUX and IBM RS6000 and 
it dumped core on both machines...)


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relationship to reality. If any reality correspondences are found, please 
notify me IMMEDIATELY. Any threats, abuse or stupidity of any kind is purely 
UNintentional. These are MY Opinions NOT my employer's.
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.windows.x.apps
From: gary@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com (Gary Henderson)
Subject: Re: program to preview postscript files that make multiple pages
Organization: Lockheed Missiles and Space Co.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 19:55:30 GMT

magras@cps.msu.edu (Mr. Jean-Claude Magras) writes:
: Hello,
: 
: The title pretty much says it all. I'm looking for a postscript file
: previewer that can handle multiple page output in X. I say a program
: around here somewhere that could do at least one page but I can't
: remember the command (xps?.. file not found) :(
: 
: Thanks in Advance, 
: 
: J.C. Magras
:  
:  magras@cps.msu.edu. | 517 337 2267 | 1736 Burcham Dr., E. Lansing, MI 48823


We use ghostscript & ghostview.  They are located at prep.ai.mit.edu.
(I think that they are in directory pub/gnu).

Note:  If the PostScript file is non-conforming, then you will only
be able to access its pages serially.  Only if the PostScript file is
conforming will you be able to access its pages randomly.


-- 
Gary J. Henderson
gary@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com
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From: bri@ukc.ac.uk (B.R.Ingram)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: New version of bricons
Date: 31 Jul 92 15:31:29 GMT
Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.


			******	B R I C O N S	******
		     a command panel using text and icons 

I have just placed a new version of the bricons package on export
export.lcs.mit.edu in the file contrib/bricons-2.0.tar.Z.  Enough bugs had 
been reported and a few new features have been added to warrant a new release.

The bricons program allows the user to start up applications from a configured 
command panel on a workstation display running X.  The bricons interface can 
consist of up to sixteen buttons which can display some text or an icon. Each 
button is used to execute a shell command using the Bourne shell.  Each button 
can be configured to display a single spring loaded popup menu with up to ten 
more buttons.

Please report any bugs to bri@ukc.ac.uk
--

- Bruce Ingram -
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: J.K.Wight@newcastle.ac.UK (Jim Wight)
Subject: Re: Scrolling in asciiTextWidget
Reply-To: J.K.Wight@newcastle.ac.uk
Organization: The Internet
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 19:37:01 GMT

starcker@vipunen.hut.fi (Vesa Starck) writes:
>  I have an Athena's asciiTextWidget, which has just one 
> line text. My problem is that I want to scroll the widget 
> without scrollbar.

I have seen that question asked a number of times but I have not seen
a solution. Therefore, when I came to want the behaviour I decided to
do something about it. The outcome is a widget that superficially
behaves like a text widget, but in fact is an AsciiText widget inside
an R5 Porthole widget, i.e. scrolling is achieved by moving the text
widget around underneath.

A version of this ScrollingText widget is already available in the 3.0
beta distribution of my aXe editor on export.lcs.mit.edu. It is used
as the filter and filename fields of the FileNominator file selector
widget. A new version will appear with the release of aXe 3.0 proper,
which hopefully will happen within the next 7 days if no last minute
problems crop up. 

Jim
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From: thomas@mathematik.uni-Bremen.de (Thomas Eberhardt)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: up-to-date version of IBM Type 1 rasterizer
Date: 22 Jul 92 17:28:49 GMT
Organization: Univ. Bremen, Informatik

Does anyone know where one can get an up-to-date copy of the donated
IBM Type 1 rasterizer that works with R5 public-patch 13 and the recently
released new version of the HP XLFD enhancements?
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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: jones@chpc.utexas.edu (Bill Jones)
Subject: Re: OLIT programming error: arc and size files missing
Keywords: OLIT arc, size
Organization: The University of Texas System - CHPC
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 19:55:31 GMT


If you are using the OLIT toolkit then the shell variable OPEWNDOWHOME must
point to the openwindow directory usually "/usr/openwin" or you will get
warning messages.  You should also make sure that XFILESEARCHPATH is
set.  Its usually defined to be $OPENWINHOME/lib/%T/%N%S

Bill Jones
From: klute@tommy.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Rainer Klute)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Nimble Musician --- with less memory !
Date: 28 Jul 1992 09:23:10 GMT
Organization: University of Dortmund, Germany
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: tommy

In article <1992Jul27.152223.11318@news.cs.indiana.edu>, min ni
<nimin@blueberry.ucs.indiana.edu> writes:
|> 	Nimble Music ( NM ) 2.1 is now ready, the new version needs
|> 	much less memory, so to those lack-of-memory-folks it's a
|> 	great news !

Hey, what about a word or two about what this stuff does?

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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: marc@hemlock.cray.com (Marc Bouron)
Subject: Problems running on colour display
Originator: marc@hemlock
Keywords: WCL COLOUR
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Date: 22 Jul 92 04:17:40 CDT


Hi People,

I have an application here which has been running fine for a number of
months and is being used by a number of people.  It uses Wcl and Xaw.
Recently, I've had a couple of reports of it not working -- X complains
of not being able to create/open the toplevel window.  It turns out that
all these reports come from people with colour Sparcs -- the previous
users all have mono SLCs.  So the question: is there something blindingly
obvious (to you, but not to me) that I need to do -- in my code or in the
resources -- so that my application will run on any ol' display device?
I thought you didn't have to worry about such things with X.  Perhaps
someone can tell me otherwise.  Thanks for any information!

Cheers,

[M][a][r][c]
From: vijay@cdsun.fnal.gov (Vijay Gurbani)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: XtDestroy patch needed
Keywords: XtDestroy, X11 R4, crash, fix
Date: 30 Jul 92 14:41:01 GMT

Hello:

I am looking for a binary patch for XtDestroy(). My application crashes,
and the stack trace informs me that _Phase2Destroy() is the culprit. I
know that there have been source code patches issued for XtDestroy(); but 
I need a binary patch, since I do not have sources availaible. The part-
iculars are:

Platform :  SunOS 4.1.2
X Version: X11 R4
Motif    : Motif 1.1

If anyone could point me in the right direction, I would appreciate it
a lot. Thanks in advance.

- vijay
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== OO =====#include <all_neccessary_evils>====All opinions are mine, of course==
From: whe@usc.edu (Wei He)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Can Primitive widgets be parents?
Date: 26 Jul 1992 01:00:49 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: phakt.usc.edu

Hi:
   Can Primitive widgets be parents?
   In O'Reilly Volume Six - Motif Programming Manual p.165, prompt_dlg.c, There
   is a satement:

   dialog = XmCreatePromptDialog(pb, "prompt", args, 2);

   pb is a PushButton, OK, PushButton is a Primitive widget, How can it be the 
   parent of Dialog?

   And in the same page, they create two buttons, but with same widget name
   "button":

   Widget button;

   button = XtVaCreateManagedWidget("PushMe-1", xmPushButtonWidgetClass, parent,
            NULL);
   button = XtVaCreateManagedWidget("PushMe-2", xmPushButtonWidgetClass, parent
            NULL);


   Is this allowed in Motif 1.1?


   Please reply to whe@nunki.usc.edu, Thanks.

scott
From: meyer@darkwing.uoregon.edu (David M. Meyer 503/346-1747)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: X11 on Solaris 5.0?
Date: 22 Jul 92 13:10:22 GMT
Article-I.D.: darkwing.MEYER.92Jul22061022
Distribution: comp
Organization: University Network Services, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
	97403


	Are any "patches" being developed for Solaris 2.0
	(sparc)?


	Thanks,


	Dave
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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: oj@pictel.com (Oliver Jones)
Subject: Re: How can I display a cursor glyph as a bitmap?
Organization: PictureTel Corporation
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 17:19:54 GMT

In article <Brv1tr.3pw@news.cso.uiuc.edu> hofmann@cs.uiuc.edu (J. Scott Hofmann) writes:
>Is there any
>way, given a cursor index (ie XC_target, XC_dot) I can display the glyph just as
>a bitmap? 


	Font cursorfont = XLoadFont (dpy, "cursor");
	GC cursorgc = XCreateGC (dpy,win, 0,0);
	XSetFont (dpy, cursorgc, cursorfont);
	char cursorglyph = XC_dot;

	XDrawString (dpy, win, cursorgc, x,y, &cursorglyph, 1L); 

There's a font named "cursor" full of these glyphs.  The even-numbered ones
(#defined as XC_dot and so forth) are the glyphs, and the odd are the masks.
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: DEC wierdness & XORing things
From: gpxpost@otago.ac.nz
Date: 28 Jul 92 12:27:38 +1300
Organization: University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

HELP !!!!!!!!!!!

My config is DECstation 3100 with mono screen.
I wrote a program on a grey scale decstation 5000/200 and it ran fine, it uses
xor to do some rubberband circles.  Obvious way of doing it ah !

BUT when moved the same code onto a 3100 with mono screen we find that xor
doesn't work !!!!!!!!!!!

Anyone else come across this??????
It works fine with draw/undraw things but I don't wanna overwrite my background
!

Help me i'm drowning
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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.windows.x.motif