andrew@megadata.mega.oz.au (Andrew McRae) (08/22/90)
In <328@megadata.mega.oz.au> Andrew McRae (me) wrote: >Having just obtained our copy of Open Windows 2.0, I decided >to rebuild one of our applications using the OLIT (AT&T supplied >Open Look widget set). As an experiment (and also because we had >some different fonts) I decided to attempt to use this toolkit >with the MIT R4 Xt intrinsics and Xlib and the MIT R4 server - after >all, Sun says that it is all R4 compatible... .... description of font problem. >I then created .snf files for all the OpenWindows fonts (using >convertfont -x and bdftosnf), and added the font path and >rehashed. ... problem doesn't go away. After some investigation I found three problems. The first was my fault in that the error about X_OpenFont was to do with a missing font I thought I had. Once I resolved that, I received another message that OLIT couldn't open the Scrollbar font. I tracked it down finally to the convertfont utility, which was doing two things that conflicted with OLIT. The first thing that convertfont does (and I finally found it in the small print) is it truncates filenames to 8 characters; given that the extension (.bdf) is 4 characters, it seems arbitary that 8 is the default, unless you assume that the .bdf file is going to be put under version control. I seem to remember some consortium guidelines on this that recommended leaving room for version control extensions, but this seems strange to apply to a generated file. The filenames that convertfont generates using 8 characters from the .fb files in the Open Windows fonts are not unique when you convert them to .bdf format, so when you (naively) run a script that converts all the fonts you overwrite a large number in the destination directory. Using the `-f' option you can expand the default filename size, so this fixed the filename collision problem. Convertfont also seems to append some kind of size extension to the font name ("a12sbarh" -> "a12sbarh-12"), so the font that OLIT is trying to load (without wildcarding) can't be found because of the extension. The solution (easy, really) is to put aliases of the fonts without the extension in the fonts.alias file. Once I made this changes everything sprang into life, so the good news is that Yes, Virginia, you CAN run the OLIT toolkit using plain vanilla MIT R4 X/Xt..... now if I can only get rid of those widget version mismatch warnings... To help those poor souls who have experienced the same problem I have appended the fonts.alias file; I am not sure if all the fonts that are in there need to be, but it is easier that working out which ones don't need to be in there. Andrew McRae inet: andrew@megadata.mega.oz.au Megadata Pty Ltd, uucp: ..!uunet!megadata.mega.oz.au!andrew North Ryde 2113 Phone: +61 2 805 0899 NSW AUSTRALIA Fax: +61 2 887 4847 --------------- sbarh a12sbarh-12 sbarv a12sbarv-12 sldrv a12sldrv-12 sldrh a12sldrh-12 button a12butto-12 lucida a12iluci-12 a12biluc a12biluc-12 a12bluci a12bluci-10 a12butto a12butto-12 a12iluci a12iluci-12 a12lucid a12lucid-10 a12sbarh a12sbarh-12 a12sbarv a12sbarv-12 a12sldrh a12sldrh-12 a12sldrv a12sldrv-12 b12bluci b12bluci-10 b12butto b12butto-12 b12lucid b12lucid-12 b12sbarh b12sbarh-12 b12sbarv b12sbarv-12 b12sldrh b12sldrh-12 b12sldrv b12sldrv-12 c12bluci c12bluci-12 c12butto c12butto-12 c12iluci c12iluci-12 c12lucid c12lucid-12 c12sbarh c12sbarh-12 c12sbarv c12sbarv-12 c12sldrh c12sldrh-12 c12sldrv c12sldrv-12 d12bluci d12bluci-14 d12butto d12butto-12 d12iluci d12iluci-14 d12lucid d12lucid-14 d12sbarh d12sbarh-12 d12sbarv d12sbarv-12 d12sldrh d12sldrh-12 d12sldrv d12sldrv-12 e12bluci e12bluci-10 e12butto e12butto-12 e12lucid e12lucid-10 e12sbarh e12sbarh-12 e12sbarv e12sbarv-12 e12sldrh e12sldrh-12 e12sldrv e12sldrv-12 f12bluci f12bluci-10 f12butto f12butto-12 f12lucid f12lucid-12 f12sbarh f12sbarh-12 f12sbarv f12sbarv-12 f12sldrh f12sldrh-12 f12sldrv f12sldrv-12 g12bluci g12bluci-10 g12butto g12butto-12 g12lucid g12lucid-10 g12sbarh g12sbarh-12 g12sbarv g12sbarv-12 g12sldrh g12sldrh-12 g12sldrv g12sldrv-12 h12bluci h12bluci-12 h12butto h12butto-12 h12iluci h12iluci-12 h12lucid h12lucid-12 h12sbarh h12sbarh-12 h12sbarv h12sbarv-12 h12sldrh h12sldrh-12 h12sldrv h12sldrv-12