gjw@anucsd.anu.oz.au (Graham Williams) (10/17/90)
Hardware: Sun SLC Software: X11R4 and OpenWindows, OLWM and TVTWM Operating System: SunOS 4.1 The OLWM seems to place as part of its window decoration an area at the bottom of each window into which an application can write text. This is used, for example, by the XView mailtool and file manager. However, such messages are simply lost when running TVTWM, for example, since there is no window decoration at the bottom of the windows. Have I missed something in tvtwm that allows me to see these messages, or is this one of those features of XView which requires the use of OLWM/ -- Graham Williams, gjw@anucsd.anu.oz.au Dept Computer Science, Australian National University, GPO Box 4, Canberra, 2601, Australia. Phone = +61 6 249 4625 (Office) Fax = +61 6 249 0010
janssen@parc.xerox.com (Bill Janssen) (10/19/90)
In article <1990Oct16.233521.25641@anucsd.anu.oz.au> gjw@anucsd.anu.oz.au (Graham Williams) writes:
no window decoration at the bottom of the windows. Have I missed something
in tvtwm that allows me to see these messages, or is this one of those
features of XView which requires the use of OLWM/
Probably doesn't *need* olwm, but probably does need some window
manager that pays attention to the properties "_OL_WINMSG_ERROR" and
"_OL_WINMSG_STATE" on the application's window. Try grepping for
"_OL_" in olwm.c for more interesting OpenWindows properties.
Bill
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3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, California 94304jmck@norge.Eng.Sun.COM (John McKernan) (10/20/90)
In article <1990Oct16.233521.25641@anucsd.anu.oz.au> gjw@anucsd.anu.oz.au writes: >The OLWM seems to place as part of its window decoration an area at the >bottom of each window into which an application can write text. This is >used, for example, by the XView mailtool and file manager. However, such >messages are simply lost when running TVTWM, for example, since there is >no window decoration at the bottom of the windows. Have I missed something >in tvtwm that allows me to see these messages, or is this one of those >features of XView which requires the use of OLWM/ > Open Look frame footers will be handled by the XView frame package instead of olwm in the next release of the xview toolkit. That means that footers should work regardless of the window manager you are using, after the next release of the xview toolkit. John McKernan. Windows and Graphics Software, Sun Microsystems. jmck@sun.com
fischer@iesd.auc.dk (Lars P. Fischer) (10/28/90)
In article <143959@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> jmck@norge.Eng.Sun.COM (John McKernan) writes: >Open Look frame footers will be handled by the XView frame package >instead of olwm in the next release of the xview toolkit. That means >that footers should work regardless of the window manager you are >using, after the next release of the xview toolkit. Thanks. That means the footers will actually be usable. Any release date for "the next release" (XView 3.0 or whatever)? /Lars -- Lars Fischer, fischer@iesd.auc.dk | NeXT: A disaster looking for a place CS Dept., Univ. of Aalborg, DENMARK. | to happen -- Bill Joy