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From: hughes@sde.mdso.vf.ge.com (Hughes Doug)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
Subject: Re: Is there a hex version of xcalc?
Date: 5 Oct 92 12:30:24 GMT
Reply-To: doug@happy.vf.ge.com
Followup-To: comp.windows.x.apps
Distribution: usa
Organization: GE M&DSO - VF

In article <1992Oct1.115229@betsy.gsfc.nasa.gov>, hagedorn@betsy.gsfc.nasa.gov (John Hagedorn) writes:
> Can anyone point me to a version of xcalc (or other
> X-based calculator) that handles hexadecimal arithmetic?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> John Hagedorn   NASA/GSFC   hagedorn@betsy.gsfc.nasa.gov

Yes, get hexcalc. It's a good program and comes with the standard X distribution.
(tape-2 I believe).  It's also available on your favorite X archive site.
It does hex/oct/dec/bin conversion as well as most of the features of a standard
TI series calculator.
Doug Hughes			GE Aerospace - Valley Forge PA
hughes@sde.mdso.vf.ge.com
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
From: ae954@yfn.ysu.edu (Andy Johnston)
Subject: Is there an x-based ethernet performance monitor?
Reply-To: ae954@yfn.ysu.edu (Andy Johnston)
Organization: St. Elizabeth Hospital, Youngstown, OH
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 15:49:35 GMT


There is a tool called "traffic" that runs under Sunview and shows
sources, destinations, loads, etc. as seen by the etherd demon.
Does anyone know of an x-based tools to monitor ethernet traffic?

Please send reply by e-mail.

			Thanks,
				Andy Johnston

Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
From: tas@engr.ucf.edu (Taha Sidani)
Subject: Help: coding with Athena Widgets
Organization: engineering, University of Central Florida, Orlando
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 13:32:47 GMT


I am trying to use the Athena Widgets on X11R5.
I created a form widget in which I dynamically create a number
of child forms that are mouse sensitive. see below

            --------------------------------------------
            |parent form                               |
            |                                          |
            |       ----------------------------       |
            |       |       child form 1       |       |
            |       ----------------------------       |
            |                                          |
            |       ----------------------------       |
            |       |       child 2            |       |
            |       ----------------------------       |
            |                                          |
            |       ----------------------------       |
            |       |       child 3            |       |
            |       ----------------------------       |
            |------------------------------------------|


I want to be able to insert these children forms in any order.
I set the Insert_Postion procedure for the parent form to always insert
at the top (as was described in "X Window System Toolkit" book by
Paul J. Asente & Ralph R Swick).  Now when I create the children forms,
it insert them on top of each other. 
However, if I get  the XtNchildren WidgetList of the parent form, and print the IDs to
the screen, They are ordered in the manner I specified.
How can I get the parent form to draw its children in the order they are
specified in its WidgetList of XtNchildren ??
and How come when I delete one of its children it unmaps it but does not 
redraw  all of its children?  I delete the child using Unrealize and Destroy Xt functions.
It waits for me to create ANOTHER child before refreshing the screen. I tried to Do XtRealize
 for the parent widget and I tried Managechildren and Unmap then Map, Nothing seems to work. 

The children are created using createmanagedwidget.
I can not get the parent form to refresh the display right after the deletion of a child.


Please send the reply to

taha@ists.engr.ucf.edu

Thanks for your help
From: bradshaw@ccvax.ucd.ie
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
Subject: A few X questions...
Date: 6 Oct 92 14:54:07 GMT
Organization: University College Dublin

A few questions for anyone reading this:-

1. How do I go about opening a DEC Window on a Sun SPARCStation
IPC thro' OpenWindows? Do I need extra software? What settings 
are required? Can I use Xterm? Are there any free solutions?

2. I am about to install either PC-Xview or DesqView/X on our
PC's to enable them as X-Terminals to our SPARCStation. Can 
this software also enable my PC's as X-Terminals to a DecStation?
I would also appreciate any advice as to which of the two above
systems is the best....DesqView/X looks impressive, does it need
extra modules to run on different protocols such as PC-NFS?

Any and all replies appreciated.....Thanks in advance....
My E-Mail addresses follow:-

CBRADH89@IRLEARN.UCD.IE
BRADSHAW@CCVAX.UCD.IE
From: azhao@cs.arizona.edu (Qiang Alex Zhao)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
Subject: Q: Bib editor
Keywords: bibliography
Date: 27 Sep 92 03:53:37 GMT
Followup-To: comp.windows.x.apps
Organization: Computer Science Dept, Univ of Arizona, Tucson

Hi there,

Is there a WYSIWYG bibliography editor which allows me to build up a
bib database and search/sort through it and export what I want to
troff, LaTeX, or FrameMaker format?

Thanks.

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  azhao@cs.arizona.edu             University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721
  (602) 621-1815
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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
From: naftaly@supergas.dazixco.ingr.com (Naftaly Stramer)
Subject: Re: Is there a hex version of xcalc?
Reply-To: naftaly@dazixco.ingr.com
Organization: Dazix
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 19:34:40 GMT


In article <1992Oct1.115229@betsy.gsfc.nasa.gov>, hagedorn@betsy.gsfc.nasa.gov (John Hagedorn) writes:
>Can anyone point me to a version of xcalc (or other
>X-based calculator) that handles hexadecimal arithmetic?
>
>Thanks.
>
>John Hagedorn   NASA/GSFC   hagedorn@betsy.gsfc.nasa.gov
>
>
>


Try calctool, in OpenWindows 3.0

Naftaly

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From: westes@sti.com (Will Estes)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
Subject: "Base frame not passed parent window in environment"
Date: 7 Oct 92 00:56:54 GMT
Organization: Mail Group

I was trying to find the source of bad network performance today and
invoked a program that promised to give some information named
"traffic".  I invoked it and got the subject error message:
	Base frame not passed parent window in environment

Does anyone know what this one means and how to get around it?

-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: rohrbach@rhrk.uni-kl.de (Axel Rohrbacher [MW])
Subject: xdm chooser question
Organization: University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 15:52:50 GMT

Hallo,
we are running about 15 different workstations (sun,vax,siemens).
On each, a local xdm and a local X-server is running.
Now, we wish to choose the working host (may be a high performance machine)
during login, so the local workstation behaves like a X-Terminal. (Of
course, this can be done with rlogin, but this is time-consuming.)

I've read the xdm-manual, and 'chooser' seems to be, what we look for.
But I can't get chooser to work; all I ever get is the same standard
login mask of xdm.

Have I misunderstood the concept or is it a mistake in my configuration
files (Xacces etc.) ?

Any hints are appreciated. Thanks


Axel Rohrbacher                rohrbach@ccksun3.cck.uni-kl.de
CIM-Centrum                    rohrbach@131.246.9.194
Universitaet Kaiserslautern

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From: chrisw@chopin.FtCollins.NCR.com (Chris Whitley)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: UIMX and templates?
Date: 5 Oct 92 15:13:31 GMT
Reply-To: chrisw@chopin.FtCollins.NCR.com (Chris Whitley)
Distribution: world
Organization: NCR Microelectronics, Ft. Collins, CO

UIMX users out there, I have a question for you.  How do
you create templates for objects such that a later change
to the template affects all instances already created?
I know how I can create a  template and then copy it all
over the place.  But suppose I then want to change it in
someway...I have to go to every single place I used the thing
and change it. Yechh!

My guess is that some of you have an awk script or two to
help ease this??  Care to share it?  Or what do you do?

Finally, I haven't yet received version 1.2 and understand
there is some possibility it solves this problem.  Anyone 
know if this is true?

Thanks in advance for any help!

---------------------------------------------------------------
Chris Whitley            email: Chris.Whitley@FtCollinsCO.NCR.COM
NCR Microelectronics     Phone: (303) 223-5100 ext. 314
2001 Danfield Court        Fax: (303) 226-9556
Ft. Collins, CO  80525
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: vsck@cbnewsf.cb.att.com (subhash.c.kapoor)
Subject: where is pgmto...
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 19:26:14 GMT


a) Where would I get programs like pgmto...

b) I am using xwd and xpr to print my windows on to a postscript
printer. Whenever the color of the text in a window 
is closer to white, I do not see the actual
text on the print out. However, if the color of the
text is black, the text does appear on the print out. 

I already know two solutions:
1)  Change the window properties.
    The problem is that my
    users will not like this solution.
2)  Change the application code to
    paint foreground text in black color only.
    Too late.

Is there any other solution?
Does anyone has a copy of xwd and/or xpr?

Thanks.

                Subhash Kapoor (att!mtnet1!vsck)
From: csthomas@gizmonic.UUCP (shane thomas)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Anyone ever port to Desq/X?
Date: 3 Oct 92 23:10:41 GMT
Reply-To: csthomas@gizmonic.UUCP (shane thomas)
Distribution: na
Organization: The Gizmonic Institute

Just curious...

Has anyone ever ported any existing X program of significant size 
to Desqview/X? My boss thinks he might wanny try it with our Sparc-based
system, and it's got me worried.

thanks -

shane






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From: ilan343@violet.berkeley.edu (Geraldo Veiga)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X11R5 on ISC -- no nore shared libs :-(
Date: 6 Oct 1992 17:39:55 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu

In article <20210@polstra.UUCP> jdp@polstra.UUCP (John Polstra) writes:
>Get XFree86.  I picked up the binaries over the weekend, and all of the
>important libraries (X11, Xaw, Xext, Xi, Xmu, Xt, and oldX, to be precise)
>came in shared versions.

Is this true for ISCix (SV3.2)?  From the XFree announcement, I
understood that SVR3.2 shared libs are still being worked on.

I am iching to switch to X11.5 but without the shlibs, it wouldn't be
practical.
From: ls@inf.rl.ac.uk (Lakshmi Sastry)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: PHIGS/PEX -HELP
Date: 2 Oct 92 13:37:54 GMT
Organization: Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Informatics Department, U.K.

Why doesn't PHIGS in X environment work for a monochrome machine?
The prog. works fine with a colour machine.
Is there a way to make PHIGS recognise it shouldn't try to get non-existent colourmaps?

The error message I get is:
PHIGS error -168 in OPEN WORKSTATION: Ignoring function, cannot open
workstation on a read-only visual with no predefined colormap properties

Quick look through Tom Gaskin's book doesn't seem to give the answer.



Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Lakshmi
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: jamieson@vitro.bms.com (Stephen Jamieson)
Subject: Mapping PF1 for DECterm to Sun Keyboard
Organization: Bristol-Myers Squibb PRI
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 21:41:44 GMT

I have been trying to figure out how to map the PF keys onto a Sun-4
keyboard while running a DECterm from A Vax system. The key combination
<ESC> Shift O Shift P will simulate a PF1 but is rather bulky. 

An ideas would be welcome. Thanks in advance.

steve


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From: klute@tommy.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Rainer Klute)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Color string to nearest match converter?
Date: 1 Oct 1992 08:40:07 GMT
Organization: CS Department, Dortmund University, Germany
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: tommy

In article <1992Sep30.143014.10063@ims.com>, tonyf@peacock.ims.com (Antonio
Freixas) writes:
|> The original code (Which I didn't quote completely) used XLookupColor
|> followed by XAllocColor, which has basically the same restriction.  So
|> I still think that the short routine I proposed does the same thing as
|> Rainer's code (minus the fprintf output).

The difference is a bit subtle: If you use XAllocNamedColor and the
allocation failes, you don't know why. You simply get a return value of
zero, and that's it. On the other hand you can introduce error checking
both after XLookupColor and after XAllocColor. In this case you know what
went wrong, either the color name was illegal or a color cell could not be
allocated.

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From: APLer@cup.portal.com (Roland Walter Besserer)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Xterminals and Xterminal Emulation?
Date: Sun,  4 Oct 92 12:31:09 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)


I can only comment on the products I have used, which are NCD and Wyse
X Terminals and DesqView/X on a 33MHz 386 PC.

Of the X terminals, NCD provides probably the best software and support
around. If price is a consideration, the Wyse X5 (monochrome, 1280x1024
17") can be had around $1200 and has performed flawlessly in our office
environment (we use about 7 or 8 if them).

My wife runs DesqView/X on her PC networked to my SPARC II system. 
DesqView/X needs at least 8MB but is a very nice environement. She runs 
a local OpenLook window manager, so in essence her PC looks pretty much 
like the SUN. We have found no problems with DVX. It has the added
advantage that it lets me run PC programs (such as MathCad) on the PC
with output locally in a SUN window - very nice.

roland
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.windows.x.motif
From: gene@ponder.csci.unt.edu (Gene De Lisa)
Subject: dragging to an icon
Organization: University of North Texas, Denton
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 15:25:36 GMT


I would like to implement a desktop type app where
a list of files can be selected and dragged to a 'folder' icon.

Is there code available that I can use as a starting point?

Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: jeremy@sw.oz.au (Jeremy Fitzhardinge)
Subject: QUERY:  Anti-aliased fonts in X?
Organization: Softway Pty Ltd
Date: 28 Sep 92 03:12:26 GMT
Summary: Has anyone done work on it?
Keywords: fonts, x window, anti-aliasing

I'm wondering if anyone has done work on making fonts in X anti-aliased
on colour displays?  I'm considering adding some code to an xterm-like
program to synthesise an anti-aliased greyscale font from a Type 1 font
rendered at a large point size, but it would be more elegant overall to
use an extention of the existing font mechanisms if possible.

I seem to remember there being some mention of a text rendering extention
being worked on at about the time the HP font extentions were released,
but I've not seen any mention of it since.  Is this still going? Is there
a release date?

	J
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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.unix.sysv386
From: root@shawn.uucp (Mark Jeghers -- UNIX/X/Motif Contractor)
Subject: X11R5 on ISC -- no nore shared libs :-(
Reply-To: root@shawn.uucp (Mark Jeghers -- UNIX/X/Motif Contractor)
Organization: Mark Jeghers -- UNIX/X/Motif Contractor
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 92 03:26:41 GMT

The stock version of X11R5 for Intel-based SVGA systems lacks an important
feature that was readlily available in X11R4 (even though not from MIT):
shared libraries.  This made the difference between acceptable performance
and swapping hell for me.  Now that I've got X11R5 going, I seriously
wonder why I should even bother using it.

Has anyone out in the net community managed to work in some of the nice
features that MIT removed?  I am already aware of the good-quality
servers for X11R5 which evolved out of the Roell R4 server.  My main
concern is if anyone has re-introduced the fine shared library support
that I have with R4 under Interactive.

Thanks in advance.

Mark Jeghers
UNIX/X/Motif Contractor
408/281-4823 [voicemail]
From: mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Opening a 24-bit window: HELP!
Date: 29 Sep 92 04:11:58 GMT
Organization: McGill Research Centre for Intelligent Machines

In article <1992Sep25.173430.631@news.iastate.edu>, carter@iastate.edu (Michael B Carter) writes:

> I feel stupid even asking this question, but I can't seem to call
> XCreateWindow() properly to create up a 24-bit window.  Here are the
> code hightlights:

> [code that uses XGetVisualInfo to find a 24-bit TrueColor visual,
> XCreateColormap to create a colormap on it, and....]

>     values.event_mask = ExposureMask | EnterWindowMask | LeaveWindowMask;
>     values.colormap   = cmap;
>     values.border_pixmap = None;
>     values.background_pixmap = None;
>     win = XCreateWindow (dpy, RootWindow(dpy, DefaultScreen(dpy)),
>       0, 0, width, height, 0, vis->depth, InputOutput, vis->visual,
>       CWColormap | CWEventMask | CWBorderPixmap | CWBackPixmap,
>       &values);

> Now, the XGetVisualInfo() call is always successful, and finds a
> 24-bit TrueColor visual.  The XCreateColormap() succeeds.  The
> XCreateWindow() fails on a "BadMatch" error.

None is not a valid border-pixmap.  You really should be getting a
BadPixmap error, but None and CopyFromParent happen to be encoded as
the same value by the protocol, so most likely your Xlib implementation
defines them as the same thing, meaning that you're actually getting a
border-pixmap of CopyFromParent.  Since your window's not the same
depth as its parent, you quite correctly get a BadMatch error.

A really good Xlib implementation would define None and CopyFromParent
as distinct values and do the mapping to the same wire value in Xlib,
allowing it to catch this.  But by this definition I doubt there are
any really good Xlib implementations out there.

If you want a simple program that puts up a window on a TrueColor
visual, I have one.  You can ftp it from larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu
(132.206.1.1) in X/x24demo.c, or I can mail it to you.

					der Mouse

			    mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu
From: cek@sdc.boeing.com (Conrad Kimball)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Can't get XROOMS to compile
Date: 5 Oct 92 21:06:36 GMT
Organization: Boeing Computer Services, Seattle, WA

In article <1992Oct1.214937.2231@awdprime.austin.ibm.com>, meo@austin.ibm.com (Miles O'Neal) writes:
|> mdm@hadrosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Michael Moore) writes:
|> | drp40@cd.amdahl.com writes:
|> | >I get the following in the final make-stage of xrooms:
|> | >
|> | >ld: Undefined symbol 
|> | >   __XPrintDefaultError 
|> | >   _alloca
|> | >*** Error code 2
|> | >make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `xrooms'
|> | 
|> | 	I had the same problem.  I had to go into the source and remove
|> | the XPrintDefaultError call and change alloca to malloc, then recompile.
|> | I have now been using it for about 2 weeks, and have had no discernable 
|> | problems.
|> 
|> _XPrintDefaultError I think is a DecWindows function - I've had
|> to #ifdef it out on all 3 systems (non-DEC) on which I've built
|> xrooms.

If you have the X source, it's in mit/lib/X/XlibInt.c.  In R5 MIT made
it a static function.  I fixed the xrooms problem by copying the code
from XlibInt.c into xrooms' xrXUtils.c file.

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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: peter@merlin.acadiau.ca (Peter Steele)
Subject: Moving the tvtwm window by the keyboard
Organization: Acadia University
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 14:14:12 GMT

I'd like to set up some keys under my tvtwm environment that
will move the viewport to certain areas on the virtual screen.
For example, I'd like <F1> to move the viewport to the upper
left corner of the virtual desktop. Can this sort of thing
be done or do I have to be satisfied with dragging the
window with the mouse?
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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: sbhatia@mary.fordham.edu (SABU)
Subject: MOTIF WIDGET NEEDED FOR GRAPHICS
Organization: Fordham University
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 20:23:00 GMT
X-Posted-From: mary.fordham.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

Hi,

    I am looking for a motif widget for graphics. I am interested in finding
a widget capable of 2-d and 3-d graphics, plus animation capabilities
like animation of curves. Either shareware or vendorware in 
acceptable.



sabu

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From: mahan@TGV.COM (Patrick L. Mahan)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: RE: Opening a 24-bit window: HELP!
Date: 28 Sep 92 17:08:40 GMT
Organization: The Internet

#
#   I feel stupid even asking this question, but I can't seem to call
#XCreateWindow() properly to create up a 24-bit window.  Here are the code
#hightlights:
#
	[code fragment deleted]
#
#Now, the XGetVisualInfo() call is always successful, and finds a 24-bit
#TrueColor visual.  The XCreateColormap() succeeds.  The XCreateWindow() fails
#on a "BadMatch" error.  I have read about the three of these calls in volumes
#0, 1, and 2 until I'm blue in the face.  There are about a zillion ways to get
#a BadMatch error in XCreateWindow(), but I thought I had them all covered.
#Obviously not.  If anyone could supply me with an explanation of why the above
#code fails, or a similar code fragment that works, I'd be eternally grateful!
#

I suspect the problem is with the XSetWindowAttributes structure.  If it
is incorrect, then, it will cause a BadMatch parameter.  You might also try
Xscope to see the X11 packet trace and look at the values of the Create
Window request.

Patrick L. Mahan

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