hrp@homxa.att.com (Harold R Pomeranz) (04/06/90)
Well, first a big thanks to everybody who responded to my posting. The general agreement seems to be that xps is the only thing going (it's available via anonymous ftp from many many sites-- I got mine from oddput.efd.lth.se, but it's also available on uunet in the comp.sources.unix archive) but xps is not the greatest thing in the world. For one thing is scribbles right on your framebuffer so you have to refresh the screen when you're done previewing to get your windows back (also things going on in that section of the framebuffer screw up the viewing area). Also I've heard some complaints about the character spacing, but I can't corroborate. Anyhow, here's my next question: I got the source and the patches, unpacked the code, and applied all the patches (four in all). Now, the problem is that the last patch (which came from a different source than the first three) modifies a line in pixrect.c changing a function call from "DeviceBitmap()" to "Pixrect_addr()". Well Pixrect_addr() is not defined either in the code for xps or in any of the OS libs. So, I put things back to use DeviceBitmap() (a macro defined in the xps code) and lo, the beast compiled and ran on my SS1. Flush with excitement, I compiled a 68020 version and tried to run it on a 3/60. It ran allright and seemed to be doing its computations, but no image was displayed. Now my SS1 is monochrome only and the 3/60 was color-- could xps have been grabbing the wrong screen device on the 3/60? If this is the case, what's the best workaround? If this is not the case, can anybody shed any light on the situation? And what about the DeviceBitmap()/Pixrect_addr() issue? Any insight would be appreciated... Hal Pomeranz h_pomeranz@att.com AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel att!homxa!h_pomeranz
gj@psychiatry.sm.ucl.ac.uk (Gordon Joly) (05/02/90)
> The > general agreement seems to be that xps is the only thing going... > but xps is not the greatest thing in the world. > For one thing is scribbles right on your framebuffer so you have to > refresh the screen when you're done previewing to get your windows back > (also things going on in that section of the framebuffer screw up the > viewing area). Not so. I discovered an ungraded xps called RALPAGE, which draws a SUNTOOLS WINDOW, with scrollbars. There is also a browser. Gordon Joly. JANET:gj@uk.ac.ucl.sm.psych UUCP:gj@ucl-psych.UUCP ARPA:gjoly@nsf.ac.uk Dept. of Psychiatry, University College & Middlesex School of Medicine, Middlesex Hospital, Mortimer Street, LONDON W1N 8AA. PS. I WILL EMAIL THE CODE ON REQUEST TO RICE ARCHIVES.