apl_aimh@jhunix.UUCP (Marty Hall) (11/06/87)
Has anyone out there gotten monthtool to work on the Sun? With me,
it seemed to compile OK, and looked nice. The only anomoly was that
when I clicked on any reminder icon, I got "^?" in the text window,
instead of that icon. However, when I saved anything, so that there
was a ".monthtool" file in my home directory, the next time I
brought up monthtool it would give me a segmentation fault and
dump the core. Deleting ".monthtool" would solve the problem until
the next time I saved anything, exited monthtool, and came back.
Monthtool looks nice (and useful), so if anyone has gotten it to work,
please let me know.
Thanks!
- Marty Hallwagner@rocky.STANFORD.EDU (Juergen Wagner) (11/09/87)
I have it running on Suns. The problem with your version seems to be the fact that you haven't installed the font correctly. In fact, the four characters used to indicate the type of entry (once, daily, monthly, yearly) are special characters in a special font. See the source for the parameter to tweak. That shouldn't be too complicated (I unshar'ed the package, entered local params, and compiled it: everything ran well). Juergen Wagner, gandalf@Russell.stanford.edu Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI), Stanford CA
barnett@vdsvax.steinmetz.UUCP (Bruce G Barnett) (11/11/87)
In article <743@rocky.STANFORD.EDU> wagner@rocky.UUCP (Juergen Wagner) writes: |I have it running on Suns. The problem with your version seems to be the fact |that you haven't installed the font correctly. | [] | See the source for the parameter to tweak. That |shouldn't be too complicated (I unshar'ed the package, entered local params, |and compiled it: everything ran well). | |Juergen Wagner, gandalf@Russell.stanford.edu |Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI), Stanford CA Well - I also had problems with monthtool. I tweaked the Makefile modifying SRCDIR and MANDIR, did a make install - and I, too, get the ^? as the first character of each reminder - which should - i believe - be one of the four special characters for month, day, year or the plain box. I get the proper characters in the panel above the text subwindow. As far as I can tell - I click a date, type in a reminder, and click the reminder type button. - This should insert the special character before the current text line. But I just get "^?". I'm running SunOS 3.4.2. What gives? -- Bruce G. Barnett <barnett@ge-crd.ARPA> <barnett@steinmetz.UUCP> uunet!steinmetz!barnett
maeder@symcom.math.uiuc.EDU (11/11/87)
responding to the 'monthtool' problems on the Sun:
The special characters to denote the type of entry in the text subwindow
printed as ^?. Making sure the special font was available was not enough
though. I found out that the parameter in the window_create call setting
the font was ignored! it looks like this:
notesDsply = window_create(frame, TEXTSW,
WIN_X, 0,
WIN_BELOW, notesPanel,
WIN_HEIGHT, WIN_EXTEND_TO_EDGE,
WIN_WIDTH, 10000 /* very large number, cuts
to actual width */ ,
>> WIN_FONT, notesFont,
TEXTSW_IGNORE_LIMIT, TEXTSW_INFINITY,
0);
I followed this call by:
window_set(notesDsply, WIN_FONT, notesFont, 0);
and then it worked fine....
Is there a problem with the sunview library?
Roman E. Maeder
Dept. of Mathematics UUCP: ...!uiucuxc!symcom!maeder
Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Internet: maeder@symcom.math.uiuc.edu
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It is now pitch dark. If you proceed you are likely to be eaten by a grue.gandalf@russell.UUCP (11/12/87)
Monthtool definitively runs. I believe, the problems with the original
distribution is the special font which has to be installed where monthtool
expects it to be. Actually, I haven't got the original files around, and
the files I am keeping have a number of changes, so I can't compare my
version with the original one. Please, be sure that FONTDIR is set to
the correct value. Personally, I don't like setting these variables inside
a program, so my Makefile looks like
LIBS = -lsuntool -lsunwindow -lpixrect
monthtool: monthtool.o
cc $(LDFLAGS) -o monthtool monthtool.o $(LIBS)
monthtool.o: monthtool.c
cc $(CFLAGS) -DSTANDALONE -DFONTDIR=\"${LIBDIR}/fonts/\" \
-c monthtool.c
The font (monthtool.font) is installed in "${LIBDIR}/fonts/". (The trailing
slash is important!! If you omit it you will get ^?, too!) The STANDALONE
is needed if I wish to build a standalone program rather than merging the
tool into my suntools.
Good luck,
Juergen Wagner gandalf@Russell.stanford.edu
Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI), Stanford Universitygandalf@russell.UUCP (11/12/87)
Oh, by the way: try % file monthtool.font It should print something like "vfont definition." If not...well, you'd better get a new font description file. --Juergen
steve@mahendo.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (3171) (11/12/87)
The icon for the button in the Reminder types: window comes from the same font that is supposed to be used in the bottom window. Since these are coming out correctly, the program must be finding the font file OK. The major difference between these two windows is that the first is a Panel while the second is a Text window. In the Release notes for 3.4, on page 108, it says: "You cannot create a text subwindow with a given font; you have to create the text subwindow, then use window_set() to set the font." and this is where the problem arises. If you modify the source to do the window_set() suggested by Sun the problem goes away. Diffs follow: *** monthtool.c.old Thu Nov 12 12:12:13 1987 --- monthtool.c Thu Nov 12 12:12:19 1987 *************** *** 380,385 **** --- 380,386 ---- WIN_FONT, notesFont, TEXTSW_IGNORE_LIMIT, TEXTSW_INFINITY, 0); + window_set( notesDsply, WIN_FONT, notesFont, 0); /* Set up panels */
dan@rna.UUCP (Dan Ts'o) (11/13/87)
Monthtool is a really nice program that was just what I wanted. However it suffers from some bad bugs. For example, it is extremely finicky about the format of the .monthtool file and will easily core dump if this file is constructed improperly. I have some bug fixes and plan on working on it some more... but watch out for the .monthtool format if you're getting core dumps...
barnett@steinmetz.UUCP (Bruce G Barnett) (11/13/87)
In article <672@russell.STANFORD.EDU> gandalf@russell.UUCP (Juergen Wagner) writes: |Monthtool definitively runs. under SunOS 3.2 |The font (monthtool.font) is installed in "${LIBDIR}/fonts/". (The trailing |slash is important!! If you omit it you will get ^?, too!) If you compile under SunOS 3.4 you will get the ^? instead of the proper [D], [M], [Y] characters. The problem is because these characters are located in the second half of the font characters ( i.e. >128 ). Yet the source defines them using a type of 'char' instead of 'unsigned char'. SunOS 3.4 is VERY strict in type checking, and the dbxtool gave me an error 'out of range' when I did set typeMark[0]='\220' I changes typeMark and typeChar to be 'unsigned char' but there was still some problems. I gave up and recompiled it under a SunOS 3.2 system, and the program finally worked properly. Perhaps someone whom has more time than I can chase this down further. | |Good luck, Ditto |Juergen Wagner gandalf@Russell.stanford.edu |Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI), Stanford University
apl_aimh@jhunix.UUCP (Marty Hall) (11/13/87)
Many thanks to the folks who tried to help me out. Here is what I learned, which seems to do the job: Kevin Weiler (kjw@steinmetz.uucp) pointed out that if you make your lines too long in the text window, even though it seems to take it, it will cause the segmentation fault/core dump I had when it reads in the .monthtools file.. I erased my long lines, and no longer have any problems. Steve (steve@mahendo.jpl.nasa.gov) pointed out that if you have a problem with "^?" instad of the reminder icons in the text window (there should be no problem getting the icons in the window where you click on them), and if you bring up monthtool automatically from you .suntools file, you can fix the problem by adding "-Wt <pathname to monthtool.font>" to the line in the .suntools that brings up monthtool. Thanks again to the people who helped, and hope this helps anyone else who had similar problems. - Marty Hall -- ARPA (preferred) - hall@hopkins-eecs-alpha.arpa UUCP - ..seismo!umcp-cs!jhunix!apl_aimh | Bitnet - apl_aimh@jhunix.bitnet Artificial Intelligence Group, MS 100/601, AAI Corp, PO Box 126, Hunt Valley, MD 21030 (301) 683-6455
sarahm@cognos.uucp (Sarah Metcalfe) (11/17/87)
In article <5419@jhunix.UUCP> apl_aimh@jhunix.UUCP (Marty Hall) writes: >when I clicked on any reminder icon, I got "^?" in the text window, >instead of that icon. This problem has been reported to me by a number of people. Someone figured out that it was a problem with SunOS 3.4; unfortunately, I only have access to 3.2, so I was unable to try things out. Luckily, I just received this fix from D. Brent Chapman (capmkt!brent) [thank you!]. It works for him under 3.4 and causes me no problems under 3.2: ---------------------- Start of forwarded message ---------------------- In the current version of SunOS (3.4), SunView ignores the WIN_FONT parameter in the window_create() function call if you are creating a window of type TEXTSW, and always uses the user's default font. This has been demonstrated, and is documented in passing in the WIN_FONT entry on page 332 of the SunView Programmer's Guide (Revision A, 15 Oct 86). What this means is that notes in the notesDsply window show up in the default font, rather than in monthtool.font, and therefore don't have their typeChar (the little 'D', 'T', or 'Y' in a box, or the filled-in box) displayed properly (they all show up as "^?"). Because of the way monthtool is written, I assume that in some past release WIN_FONT was _not_ ignored. It turns out the workaround for the problem I described previously is relatively simple; you just set the environment variable "DEFAULT_FONT" to the monthtool font before you make any SunView calls. Appended is a set of context diffs between your original code and my modified code. ======== Output of "diff -c monthtool.c.orig monthtool.c" *** monthtool.c.orig Mon Nov 9 10:54:17 1987 --- monthtool.c Mon Nov 9 10:58:32 1987 *************** *** 10,15 **** --- 10,23 ---- Discussion: Displays a calendar to the screen for a given month. User may move the mouse to any day of the month and view or enter appointments for that date. + + Modified: D. Brent Chapman (capmkt!brent), 9 Nov 87 + Set the default font (via the "DEFAULT_FONT" + environment variable) to the monthtool font, + so that the program works properly under + SunOS 3.4 (which, for some reason, ignores + the WIN_FONT attribute when creating a TEXTSW + window such as the notesDsply window). */ *************** *** 284,289 **** --- 292,299 ---- 31, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31, }; + + char fontEnv[80]; ^L main(argc, argv) *************** *** 296,301 **** --- 306,323 ---- int type; + /* set default font */ + + strcpy(fontString, FONTDIR); + strcat(fontString, NORMALFONT); + + strcpy(fontEnv, "DEFAULT_FONT="); + strcat(fontEnv, fontString); + putenv(fontEnv); + + font = pf_open(LARGEFONT); /* Open large sized font. */ + notesFont = pf_open(fontString); /* Open regular sized font. */ + /* Set up menus */ fileMenu = menu_create(MENU_ITEM, *************** *** 324,334 **** ^L /* Set up windows */ - - font = pf_open(LARGEFONT); /* Open large sized font. */ - strcpy(fontString, FONTDIR); - strcat(fontString, NORMALFONT); - notesFont ^L= pf_open(fontString); /* Open regular sized font. */ frame = window_create(0, FRAME, FRAME_ICON, &monthIcon, --- 346,351 ---- ---------------------- End of forwarded message ---------------------- Hope it helps. >However, when I saved anything, so that there >was a ".monthtool" file in my home directory, the next time I >brought up monthtool it would give me a segmentation fault and >dump the core. Deleting ".monthtool" would solve the problem until >the next time I saved anything, exited monthtool, and came back. I am at a loss to explain this one. Please repost if this occurs again. Sarah Metcalfe ------- P.S. to Marty Hall: I received your mail message and have been trying to reply for a while, but we have a very flakey mailer and all my messages to you get returned. I'm glad you posted so that I could reply! -- Sarah Metcalfe decvax!utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!cognos!sarahm Cognos Incorporated P.O. Box 9707, 3755 Riverside Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA K1G 3Z4 (613) 738-1440
chapman@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Brent Chapman) (11/24/87)
In article <1770@cognos.UUCP> sarahm@batman.UUCP (Sarah Metcalfe) writes: >In article <5419@jhunix.UUCP> apl_aimh@jhunix.UUCP (Marty Hall) writes: >>when I clicked on any reminder icon, I got "^?" in the text window, >>instead of that icon. > >This problem has been reported to me by a number of people. Someone figured >out that it was a problem with SunOS 3.4; unfortunately, I only have access >to 3.2, so I was unable to try things out. Luckily, I just received this fix >from D. Brent Chapman (capmkt!brent) [thank you!]. It works for him under 3.4 >and causes me no problems under 3.2: My overly long and complicated commentary and fix deleted; it turns out there is a simple one-line fix that does the same thing. BTW, yes, I am capmkt!brent, and yes, that's not where this article is coming from. Instead of all that crap I sent to Sarah (a late-night hack that should never have seen the light of day), just put the following line _after_ the line that says "notesDsply = window_create(...);" (I don't have the source available on this machine, so I'm working from memory): window_set(notesDsply, WIN_FONT, notesFont, 0); For some damn dumb reason, the 3.4 window_create() call ignores the WIN_FONT parameter when initially setting up the window, but calling window_set() immediately after window_create() works just fine. I've been using monthtool for a couple of weeks now with no other major problems. It _is_ documented that calls to window_create() for TEXTSW windows ignore WIN_FONT parameters in the SunView Programmer's Guide (page 332), but the documentation is skimpy at best, and seems to imply that WIN_FONT _never_ has any effect on TEXTSW windows. As far as I could tell, the overlapping "Today" and arrow buttons are because the program can't find the "monthtool.font" file, and is using the default font to display "Today", which is too large. Make sure your path to the monthtool.font file is set correctly (in the Makefile, if I remember right), and everything should work. My users and I really love the tool; most of us have it rigged to come up open to today's messages in our .suntools files so it's there when we log in. Many thanks to Sarah (& Co., if any; like I said, I don't have the source available to check right now) for a very useful tool. -Brent -- Brent Chapman Capital Market Technology, Inc. Senior Programmer/Analyst 1995 University Ave., Suite 390 {lll-tis,ucbvax!cogsci}!capmkt!brent Berkeley, CA 94704 capmkt!brent@{lll-tis.arpa,cogsci.berkeley.edu} Phone: 415/540-6400