xfig and mwm problems ...
B. Marchand
marchand@purdue.edu
Tue Jan 13 23:40:00 GMT 2004
> The man has a point:
woman ;-)
> I just tried to duplicate the problem and succeeded in duplicating the
> problem :)
Yes! Thank you. It's good to know that I'm not the only one with the
problem.
>
>
> Okay, the reason this problem exists is due to the stupid VendorShell
> that is used by Xt. LessTif overrides VendorShell with its own and we
> had to write a hack to make this work on Cygwin/X.
>
> Unfortunately, Xaw3d also overrides the VendorShell with its own
> version. However, it appears that I got a little too busy right around
> the time that I was going to release a patched Xaw3d library... I have
> the updated version built in my local tree, but I never finished
> testing it or releasing it. :) I just tested the fix and it solves
> your problem.
>
> Thanks for putting up with a forgetful developer...
Thank you for taking the time to look into this. Your efforts are
greatly appreciated.
--B.
> I had this email all typed up, explaing how there might be a problem
> since Xaw3d and LessTif both override the VendorShell. Then I thought
> that I had better confirm that Xaw3d had actually been released with
> that fix; it hadn't, so I had to rewrite the whole email. :)
>
> Xaw3d-1.5D-5 is coming soon to a mirror near you and will fix your
> problem with xfig and mwm.
>
> Harold
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