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From: warwick@rsvl.unisys.com (Warwick Irwin )
Subject: Seeking info on generic GUI interface - XVT?
Summary: What system-independent GUI interfaces are available?
Keywords: XVT X-windows MS-windows generic GUI
Organization: rsvl.unisys
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 18:16:38 GMT


I am looking for information on any product which provides a generic
GUI interface to a (Unix/DOS/...) application and makes the appropriate
calls to whatever real GUI is in use.  (At least X and MS Windows.)

I have vague recollections of a product, which I think was called XVT,
which does this.  If this is correct, could someone please mail me the
address of the supplier?

Are there any alternatives?  Opinions welcome.

Profuse apologies if this is a FAQ, I usually lurk in other BBs.

Please respond via e-mail, I will summarise if interest level warrants.

From: ralphk@hpuecoz.NSR.HP.COM (RALPH KOTOSKI)
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 21:43:41 GMT
Subject: Re: Help: A question on WinWord 2.0
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Englewood, CO
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc

>Could anybody tell me how to query about the bookmark name of a selected
>text/object that I have ever named before? I hope someone can give me an
>efficient way instead of using the "GO TO" command to try all the named
>bookmarks one by one. Thanks in advance for your help.

The only way I know of is to goto the Edit menu and select Goto.  This
will bring up a dialog box with a list of all the bookmarks.  Hope it
helps.


Ralph Kotoski                          Hewlett-Packard PSO
Performance Specialist                 Neely Sales Region
ralphk@hpuecoz.nsr.hp.com              24 Inverness Place East
Ralph_Kotoski@hpatc3.desk.hp.com       Englewood, Colorado    80112
(303)-T649-5761                   :^)
Xref: sparky comp.windows.misc:1160 comp.windows.x:15328
From: rwh@moose.cccs.umn.edu (RICHARD HOFFBECK)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc,comp.windows.ms,comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X Server for MS-Windows
Keywords: X, Windows, server
Date: 17 Aug 92 21:46:00 GMT
Reply-To: rwh@moose.cccs.umn.edu
Organization: Colon Cancer Control Study, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1w9mqsp.feng@netcom.com>, feng@netcom.com (FengHeng Wu) writes:
> I am planning to buy a X-Server that can run under MS-Windows -
> basically a product that can allow me to run X-applications in
> MS-Windows environment. So far I have come across only one such
> product - (HCL-eXceed/W by Hummingbird, Canada, which costs around
> $500). Could you suggest me some other such products, with some
> discussion on the relative merits, prices etc. ? Or a suitable
> newsgroup where I should post this ?

DEC markets eXcursion for Windows for around $325 US discounted. I'm
afraid I don't have any first hand experience.

--rick

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Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc,comp.windows.ms,comp.windows.x
From: tom@uts.cc.wayne.edu (Thomas Richard Stevenson)
Subject: Re: X Server for MS-Windows
Keywords: X, Windows, server
Organization: Wayne State Univ.
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 15:18:23 GMT

There is a file available by anonymous FTP at export.lcs.mit.edu called
/contrib/XServers-NonUNIX.txt.Z which lists a ton of different software
packages for the PC (and Mac) that run as xservers. It's a very good writeup.
From: yong@cs.unc.edu (Dong-Yong O)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc
Subject: Test(Nothing to read)
Keywords: Test
Date: 23 Aug 92 01:29:17 GMT

This is only a test.


Xref: sparky comp.windows.misc:1172 comp.windows.x:15408
From: chris@visionware.co.uk (Chris Davies)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc,comp.windows.ms,comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X Server for MS-Windows
Date: 19 Aug 92 16:27:24 GMT
Organization: VisionWare Ltd., Leeds, UK
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Richard Briggs (rgb@esleng.ocunix.on.ca) wrote:
: XVision exists which needs TCP/IP services underneath.  X and MS windows
: coexist, with clipboard services.  I have no idea who sells this.

We do - VisionWare.

You can get further information on XVision by phoning either VisionWare
here in the UK (+44 532 788858) or in the USA (+1 415 325-2113) or
faxing us (+44 532 304676 or +1 415 325-8710), or emailing
info@visionware.co.uk.

Unipress in the USA also sell our products (tel. +1 908 287-2100).


Chris
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  Tel +44 532 788858 x238.  Fax +44 532 304676.  Email chris@visionware.co.uk
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From: af774@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Chad Cipiti)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc
Subject: comp.windows.ms
Date: 19 Aug 92 14:37:25 GMT
Article-I.D.: usenet.1992Aug19.143725.28133
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)


Where is it?

Chad
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From: edmtl@alf.uib.no (Thor Legvold)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc,comp.windows.ms
Subject: Reference/Catalogue program for Windows???
Date: 18 Aug 92 09:27:55 GMT
Organization: University of Bergen, Norway

Hi.

I'm in need of a reference program a`la that of Nota-bena, or Endnote for
the Mac, but for Windows.  Does such a beast exist???  Any/all info
appreciated!

Regards,
Thor
edmtl@fiol.uib.no
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc,comp.windows.ms,comp.windows.x
From: feng@netcom.com (FengHeng Wu)
Subject: X Server for MS-Windows
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 16:36:04 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Keywords: X, Windows, server


Hi, I am posting this through a friend's account, since I do not have
access to USENET newsgroups. I would greatly appreciate if you could
reply to my email address at prde001@atai.epri.com. Also, my apologies
if this has already been discussed on these newsgroups - or if this
article does not belong here!

I am planning to buy a X-Server that can run under MS-Windows -
basically a product that can allow me to run X-applications in
MS-Windows environment. So far I have come across only one such
product - (HCL-eXceed/W by Hummingbird, Canada, which costs around
$500). Could you suggest me some other such products, with some
discussion on the relative merits, prices etc. ? Or a suitable
newsgroup where I should post this ?

Thanks a lot,

Prasad.
prde001@atai.epri.com
From: benitzt@ohsu.edu (Tony Benitz)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc
Subject: newby
Date: 11 Aug 92 15:25:19 GMT
Article-I.D.: ohsu.benitzt.22
Distribution: usa
Organization: Oregon Health Sciences University

I am a new windows 3.1 user and was wondering
if people posting to this group get there questions answered
or if there is a better group to post questions to.

I am going to end up supporting my building in windows running all
sorts of net stuff and I am in the process on finding good resources
for questions.

One that comes to mind is...

Is it possible to have windows 3.1 startup in a group window other than
the program manager ??


		Tony
**************************************************
*  Tony Benitz                benitzt.ohsu.edu   *
*             " I don't care how                 *
*               tell me why ! "                  *
**************************************************
From: gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc
Subject: Anyone want to take over the FAQ?
Date: 16 Aug 92 00:19:43 GMT
Organization: Department of Astronomy, University of Virginia

Although it's hardly a time-consuming task, I'd like to give the
responsiblity of maintaining/posting the FAQ to the lowest bidder. All
you have to do is keep your eyes open for new additions.

-- greg
From: munn@a.cs.okstate.edu (MUNN THOMAS JOSEPH)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc,comp.windows.ms
Subject: Window and * megs of ram, what next?s
Date: 20 Aug 92 01:36:27 GMT
Article-I.D.: a.1992Aug20.013627.8012
Organization: Oklahoma State University


 
I have just bought 8 megs of ram for my 386.  I cannot decide what to
do, do I set up a four meg cache, a one meg cache, and a 3 meg ramdisk
(for windows temp files), or just a one meg cache and give the rest
to windows.  Which is the fastest approach (eg will realize the most speed?)
 
Thanx
Thomas
 

-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc,comp.windows.ms,comp.windows.x
From: rgb@esleng.ocunix.on.ca (Richard Briggs)
Subject: Re: X Server for MS-Windows
Keywords: X, Windows, server
Organization: Excalibur Systems Limited, Kanata, Ontario, Canada
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 14:35:19 GMT

In article <17AUG199216461607@moose.cccs.umn.edu> rwh@moose.cccs.umn.edu writes:
>In article <1w9mqsp.feng@netcom.com>, feng@netcom.com (FengHeng Wu) writes:
>> I am planning to buy a X-Server that can run under MS-Windows -
>> basically a product that can allow me to run X-applications in
>> MS-Windows environment. So far I have come across only one such
>> product - (HCL-eXceed/W by Hummingbird, Canada, which costs around
>> $500). Could you suggest me some other such products, with some
>> discussion on the relative merits, prices etc. ? Or a suitable
>> newsgroup where I should post this ?
>
>DEC markets eXcursion for Windows for around $325 US discounted. I'm
>afraid I don't have any first hand experience.
>
>--rick
>
>+-----------------------------------------------------------------+
>| Richard Hoffbeck               INTERNET: rwh@moose.cccs.umn.edu |
>| Colon Cancer Control Study     ATT     : (612) 627-4151         |
>| University of Minnesota        CIS     : 72406,521              |
>| Minneapolis, MN 55455                                           |
>+-----------------------------------------------------------------+

XVision exists which needs TCP/IP services underneath.  X and MS windows
coexist, with clipboard services.  I have no idea who sells this.

-- 
__________________________________________________________________________
 Richard Guy Briggs         |   briggs@aix1.uottawa.ca
 Excalibur Systems Limited  |   rgb@[esleng|excalibur].ocunix.on.ca
 Kanata, Ontario, Canada    |   [esleng|excalibur]!rgb
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc
Subject: Windows Talk
From: rrmill@skcla.monsanto.com
Date: 13 Aug 92 08:10:53 GMT
Organization: Searle, Skokie, IL
Nntp-Posting-User: rrmill



I would like to find some GOOD, EASILY UNDERSTOOD articles 
and/or books on Windows, but not about Windows programming per se.  
I'd like to give a talk on what the Window concept is all about.  
I've been reading about it in  my Borland C++ book and it gives 
a brief, but good, description of how to create a Windows executable 
having created a regular  executable.  (It mentions about a resource 
file, a .res, but fails to give an example of one, which I would 
like to see.)


Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc
From: ins434u@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (D. May)
Subject: Using Borland Custom Control Library
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 22:55:38 GMT

**** I know this probably isn't the best place for this but I'm getting
	desperate ****

I have this problem with TPW.  I am learning how to do TPW's menus, dialogs, etcwith Resource Workshop  - and am joggin through it with Neil Rubenking's
Turbo Pascal book.

I always thought that Resource Workshop was pretty cool because you could
access Borland's nice-looking dialogs, etc.  However, I have just found out
(from reading Rubenking's book) that unless BWCC.DLL is loaded (i.e. if you're
doing something like running Resource Workshop) your nice custom control
dialogs don't load up properly.

I tried it this morning and he was right.  But he says, instead of using
WObjects and StdDlgs, use the units WObjectB and StdDlgB - wait a minute...
I don't think I have those units (it would stand to reason - because I pur-
chased TPW when they bundled WRT with it.  My Resource Workshop comes with
TC++ for Windows).  You need these units to build a stand-alone program.

So - I was wondering if anyone can help me - by telling how to get them or
if they can get them to me or whatever!!!!!!!

Anyway ... at least I can still do dialogs - even though they'll be as 
boring as watching paint dry...


Thanks.

Daniel May
2nd year Sci/Law
Monash University, Australia, Earth
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: sinkkila@dxcern.cern.ch (Timo Sinkkila)
Subject: Using XSelectAsyncEvent routine
Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 10:23:02 GMT

Hi,

I have a program that use XSelectAsyncEvent to handle
X events asynchronously (The program use only Xlib
routines, not Xtoolkits). I use this routine, because
I want to avoid loop that checks, if there are
any event in the queue.
This has worked in Ultrix running X release 4, but
now when we installed X release 5, it seems that
this routine is not anymore supported. 

Have you any idea how to handle events without
having a loop?

Thank you in advance.

Timo Sinkkila
sinkkila@dxcern.cern.ch

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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: raj@gdstech.grumman.com (Rajesh Chawla)
Subject: Help in using XSetTile
Organization: GRUMMAN DATA SYSTEMS
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 19:16:55 GMT



I am trying to draw weather line patterns on my XWindow display. I
am setting XSetTile prior to drawing a line with my 32x32 tile pixmap.
I see good results when the line is horizontally straight. I guess
this  is because I developed the tile along a horizontal axis.
However, when I try to draw a curve line, it fills the line with 
horizontal lines of my tile pattern rather than rotating the tile
to go according to the curvature of the line. Can anyone give me
a clue as to what I'm doing wrong? 

Thanks.


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From: pgravel@nap.amoco.com (Philip L. Gravel)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X Windows on Non-UNIX systems
Date: 19 Aug 92 18:25:13 GMT
Reply-To: pgravel@nap.amoco.com (Philip L. Gravel)
Organization: Amoco Corporation

In article <5700@osc.COM>, george@osc.COM (George Baggott) writes:
 
> There are now a number of products which implement an X server for PCs
> and Macs.  They allow you to run an X windows application on a UNIX
> machine and display it on a PC or Mac.  Does anyone know of a product
> which allows you to develop a PC or Mac based X *client*?  Such a
> product would allow you to develop a PC or Mac based X windows application
> which could be displayed on a UNIX machine, PC, or Mac running an
> X server.

InterCon has a product called Planet-X which will allow a X-server (the 
display device) to open a window to a Mac in which a Mac application runs.  
Is this what you hand in mind?


Phil

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Amoco Corporation, Chicago, IL        Phone:    (312)856-3553
----------
These opinions aren't worth the paper they're written on and
certainly don't reflect those of my employer.
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: why@bnr.ca (Graeme Boyd)
Subject: Re:Xsun R5 (fix-16) crashing alot?
Followup-To: 29408
Originator: why@bcrks197
Reply-To: why@bnr.ca (Graeme Boyd)
Organization: Bell Northern Research, Ottawa
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 15:33:09 GMT


>  Ever since upgrading to  fix-16, my Xsun server  seems to be  crashing
>alot and I  was wondering  if anyone  else has  seen this.   Also,  when
>starting the server with xstart, not all  of the clients come up all  of
>the time.
>  Sometimes only 1/2 of my clients start, sometimes all (rarely).   This
>is on a  standalone, idle workstation.   On start  up, I've been  seeing
>alot of these which never used to happen.
>
>| Error: Can't open display: :0
> [ .... ]

I too am getting these types of errors. In my case I am running R5 on
the OpenWindows V3.0 server (so I can get sunView binary). The quick
fix that appears to work is to "sleep 5" before starting any applications
in my .xinit file.

Any solutions to the server crashing would be appreciated.

-- 
Graeme Boyd                      B.N.R. Ltd
why@bnr.ca                       Ottawa, Canada
                   Perrussel's Law
There is no job so simple that it cannot be done wrong.
==========
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From: af997@cobcs1.cummins.COM (Stephen J. Byers)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X11R4 server for the Tadpole Sparkbook?
Date: 12 Aug 92 21:14:21 GMT
Organization: The Internet

I am also looking for X11R4/5 for the Tadpole SPARCBook.  Does anyone offer
this port?

I want to replace the xnews server with the MIT X11R4/5 server.  Also, I 
would like to dump OpenWindows for Motif.  I am under the impression that
any Motif port for the SPARC chip will suffice.  Is this true?

Has anyone done this?

FYI: We have both greyscale and color version of the Tadpole.



Thank you,


Stephen J. Byers
Sr. CIM Engineer
Cummins Engine Company
Mail Code: 60202
500 Jackson Street
Columbus, In 47201
Phone:  (812) 377-3377
Fax:    (812) 377-3334
E-Mail: af997@cobcs1.cummins.com



> From xwin-relay@cec1 Fri Jul 24 06:26:13 1992
> Date: 23 Jul 92 18:45:49 GMT
> From: uunet!kastor.ccsf.caltech.edu!parasoft@cec1 (Parasoft GmbH)
> Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
> Subject: Is there an X11R4 server for the Tadpole Sparkbook?
> Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.windows.x
> Sender: uunet!expo.lcs.mit.edu!xpert-request@cec1
> To: xpert@expo.lcs.mit.edu
> Content-Length: 163
> X-Lines: 5
> 
> Does anyone know if there is an X11R4 server (commercial or public
> domain) for the TadPole SPARKbook? please reply to
> bryan@elephant.parasoft.com Thank you
> 
> bryan
> 
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: rws@expo.lcs.mit.EDU (Bob Scheifler)
Subject: re: HP R5 X server
Organization: The Internet
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 21:14:53 GMT

You will get a faster X server, especially for text painting, by adding

#define AVOID_MEMORY_READ
#define FAST_CONSTANT_OFFSET_MODE
#define LARGE_INSTRUCTION_CACHE
#define PLENTIFUL_REGISTERS

inside the "#ifdef hpux" in server/include/servermd.h.
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: aardvark@nt1l.krl.com (Donald Koch)
Subject: Re: XGrabPointer
Organization: Koch Research Labs
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 02:26:38 GMT

In article <9208180034.AA08091@mtesol>, sinan@Mtesol.boeing.COM (Sinan Karasu) writes:
> Not much more info can I give you, ( big program ) . Has anybody have an idea what
> this means ???
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> X Error of failed request:  BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
>   Major opcode of failed request:  26 (X_GrabPointer)
>   Value in failed request:  0x8000
>   Serial number of failed request:  247
>   Current serial number in output stream:  247
> 

The possibilities are that you:
  passed a bad pointer mode (only GrabModeSync and GrabModeAsync allowed)
  passed a bad keyboard mode (ditto)
  passed a bad owner-events value (only True or False)
  passed a bad event mask (must have only PointerGrabMask set unless bc mode is on)

The actual value you passed was 0x8000.  You should be able to use xscope to
find the offending packet (if you can't find the problem by inspection or via
a debugger) and, therefore, which of the above fields was incorrect.

-- 
Don Koch
aardvark@krl.com
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: egreshko@twntpe.cdc.COM (egreshko)
Subject: Error trying to use fonts on SGI
X-Unparsable-Date: Sun, 23 Aug 92 13: 06:57 TDT
Organization: The Internet
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 06:54:42 GMT

Hello,

	I'm trying to use some Chinese fonts on an SGI machine.  I've
used these fonts with success on a SUN.  In this case the font name is
taipei24b.  After using the mkfontdir command I try to display the
fonts using xfd.  The error I am getting is:

Cannot convert string "taipei24b" to type FontStruct

	Can anyone tell me what the touble is?

	Kindly respond directly to me as I do not read this newsgroup.

					Thanks,

-- 
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Xref: sparky comp.windows.x:15448 comp.windows.x.motif:5723
From: kapdo@src.umd.edu ()
Subject: Need help how to print window image!
Originator: kapdo@tex1.src.umd.edu
Organization: Systems Research Center, University of Maryland, College Park
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 21:39:03 GMT


I want to know how to print window image (actually I made panel for user 
interface) to laser printer. Is there Xwindow system function for this?

please send e-mail directly to kapdo@src.umd.edu
thanks in advance.



Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: meir@tfs.com (Meir Zaid)
Subject: Communication between Motif apps using properties
Organization: TRW Financial Systems
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 06:21:16 GMT


I am writing a user interface that part of its job is to display
error messages received from other applications running on the same
machine.  The other apps communicating the messages to the user
interface using properties/atoms.  My problem is that all apps have
to share a widget because properties are associated with widgets.
I guess the most reasonable widget to use is the text widget in
which the errors are to be displayed.  But how can the other apps
know the widget ID of that window?
-- 

Meir Zaid			meir@tfs.com
TRW Financial Systems		(510) 704-3362
Berkeley,  California		Fax: (510) 845-7311
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: kaleb@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley)
Subject: Re: Making a window stay on top
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 15:42:03 GMT

In article <11AUG199216011614@cvdv73> fisk@mayo.edu writes:
>How do I specify that a window always stay on top of the stack, even if the
>input focus changes to another window?  I am using Motif 1.1 on VMS, but will
>be porting the application to an RS/6000 running Motif 1.1 also.  This would
>be X11R4.  If you need more information to answer this question sufficiently
>please let me know!  E-mail repsonses appreciated, but postings are accepted.

*Always* stay on top is, strictly speaking, not possible.  For the most
part, you can add a translation/action or add an event handler to receive 
VisibilityNotify events when the client is partially or fully obscured,
and then XRaiseWindow(...) to unobscure the window.

This simplistic strategy fails when you move the window partially off the 
screen, leaving it "partially obscured", but not "covered", per se.  Once 
partially obscured, further activities that obscure the window a little more 
do not result in additional VisibilityNotify events being delivered to the 
client.

-- 

Kaleb Keithley                          kaleb@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov

Not authorized, in any way, shape, or form, to speak for anyone.
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x