gram@uctcs.uucp (Graham Wheeler) (10/03/90)
I'm beginning to wonder about this Athena widget stuff. Maybe I should write my own widget set (call it `Working Widgets'!). The functions to read AsciiSrc and TextSrc text are described (at least the latter; the formare isn't even mentioned in the manual) as returning 'the actual number of characters read from the text buffer'. Even the comments on the source code make this claim. Well, its bullsh*t. In actual fact, what is returned is the offset into the buffer of the last character read. How many segmentation violations is it going to take.... Oh well, you get what you pay for 8-) (No offence meant to my hero Richard Stallman!) (BTW, I posted an earlier copy of this message which I hope I have eliminated. If not, I apologise. I can't do a simple cancel as I post over a LAN, and by the time the news server gets it I don't own the article any more. So lots of panicky rm's by the administrator are needed. Maybe one day we'll get round to figuring out how to send control messages directly from the server!) Finally, does anyone have an E-mail address to which I can post these sort of errors, to prevent them reappearing in a future release? Graham Wheeler | "Don't bother me, Data Network Architectures Lab| I'm reading a `Crisis'!" Dept. of Computer Science | Internet: <gram.uctcs@f4.n494.z5.fidonet.org> University of Cape Town | BANG: <...uunet!ddsw1!olsa99!uctcs!gram>
moraes@cs.toronto.edu (Mark Moraes) (10/08/90)
gram@uctcs.uucp (Graham Wheeler) writes: >I'm beginning to wonder about this Athena widget stuff. If it's any consolation, the R4 Xaw is MUCH more robust and functional than the R2 version. Try the HP widgets (Xw) or the Cornell widgets. (Both in the R4 contrib, see the patches in expo.lcs.mit.edu:contrib/R4fixes for them) Xw is not as robust as it used to be in R2 days, since the toolkit intrinsics changed so drastically, but I still find it more cooperative than other widget sets. Or pay Real Money and get Motif/OLIT. Or try XView. Mark.