dkelly@npiatl.UUCP (Dwight Kelly) (08/16/89)
Can xfish run on a 4-bit (16 color) display? I am getting a X protocol
error while creating the bitmap (invaild argument). Do I need a 8-bit
display to run xfish in the distributed form?
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Dwight Kelly UUCP: gatech!npiatl!dkelly
Director R&D AT&T: (404) 962-7220
Network Publications, Inc 2 Pamplin Drive Lawrenceville, GA 30245
Publisher of "The Real Estate Book" nationwide!jwb@mcnc.org (Jack W. Buchanan Jr.) (08/18/89)
In article <427@npiatl.UUCP> dkelly@npiatl.UUCP (Dwight Kelly) writes: >Can xfish run on a 4-bit (16 color) display? I am getting a X protocol >error while creating the bitmap (invaild argument). Do I need a 8-bit >display to run xfish in the distributed form? > >-- >Dwight Kelly UUCP: gatech!npiatl!dkelly >Director R&D AT&T: (404) 962-7220 >Network Publications, Inc 2 Pamplin Drive Lawrenceville, GA 30245 > Publisher of "The Real Estate Book" nationwide! I have gotten this to work. It's easy. In the file xfish, about midway through is the error message. Change the planes <8 to <4. This will stop the error message. Then there are two calls to something like XCreate_Window. In the parameter list there are two 8s. Change the first one in each call to 4. This is the depth of the display. Incidently, since I only had a monochrome ultrix vaxstation, I displayed on a 4 plane VMS vaxstation 2000 and it worked fine (somewhat to my amazement). To do this set host from the VMS machine (server) to the ultrix client. on ultrix issue setenv DISPLAY YOUR_VMS_HOSTNAME::WSA0: This will use the VMS machine as the X server. This will only work for ultrix (or other unix running decnet) because the VMS X server doesn't yet know how to use tcp/ip as the transport medium. Jack Buchanan Medicine and Biomedical Engineering UNC-Chapel Hill buchanan@odin.bme.unc.edu
lma@polya.Stanford.EDU (Larry M. Augustin) (08/21/89)
In article <1334@speedy.mcnc.org> jwb@mcnc.org.UUCP (Jack W. Buchanan Jr.) writes: :In article <427@npiatl.UUCP> dkelly@npiatl.UUCP (Dwight Kelly) writes: ::Can xfish run on a 4-bit (16 color) display? I am getting a X protocol ::... : :I have gotten this to work. It's easy. In the file xfish, about midway :through is the error message. Change the planes <8 to <4. This will stop :the error message. Then there are two calls to something like :XCreate_Window. In the parameter list there are two 8s. Change the first :one in each call to 4. This is the depth of the display. I've made this sort of change in a number of programs. It's very easy to do, but it's just as easy to query the display depth using XDefaultDepth, and it makes the application much more portable. Larry M. Augustin ERL 414 lma@sierra.stanford.edu Computer Systems Lab lma@dayton.stanford.edu Stanford University (415) 723-9285 Stanford, CA 94305
envbvs@epb2.lbl.gov (Brian V. Smith) (08/21/89)
# In article <11419@polya.Stanford.EDU>, lma@polya.Stanford.EDU (Larry M. Augustin) writes: > > In article <1334@speedy.mcnc.org> jwb@mcnc.org.UUCP (Jack W. Buchanan Jr.) writes: > :In article <427@npiatl.UUCP> dkelly@npiatl.UUCP (Dwight Kelly) writes: > ::Can xfish run on a 4-bit (16 color) display? I am getting a X protocol > ::... > : > :I have gotten this to work. It's easy. In the file xfish, about midway > :through is the error message. Change the planes <8 to <4. This will stop > :the error message. Then there are two calls to something like > :XCreate_Window. In the parameter list there are two 8s. Change the first > :one in each call to 4. This is the depth of the display. > > I've made this sort of change in a number of programs. It's very easy > to do, but it's just as easy to query the display depth using > XDefaultDepth, and it makes the application much more portable. Weelll, I tried it on our Vaxstation 2000 4-plane color machines, and after it puts up the background water (aquamarine in color) with some bubbles, and it lowers itself to the bottom of the window stack, the whole system gets wedged. Soon, no one on the machine can do anything, AND the HALT button on the back doesn't even work! Has anyone else tried it on a VS2000 (4-plane color)? Running X11.3 with patches 1-9, Ultrix 3.0 _____________________________________ Brian V. Smith (bvsmith@lbl.gov) Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory We don't need no signatures! f o d d e r
dkelly@npiatl.UUCP (Dwight Kelly) (08/22/89)
>> In article <1334@speedy.mcnc.org> jwb@mcnc.org.UUCP (Jack W. Buchanan >Jr.) writes: >> :In article <427@npiatl.UUCP> dkelly@npiatl.UUCP (Dwight Kelly) writes: >> ::Can xfish run on a 4-bit (16 color) display? I am getting a X protocol >> : >> :I have gotten this to work. It's easy. In the file xfish, about midway >> :through is the error message. Change the planes <8 to <4. This will stop >> :the error message. Then there are two calls to something like >> :XCreate_Window. In the parameter list there are two 8s. Change the first >> :one in each call to 4. This is the depth of the display. There is only one call to XCreateWindow and it is created with a depth of 1. The error occurs when xfish tries to set the background pixmap to a bitmap that is one-bit deep. Also, I changed XCreateWindow to XCreateSimpleWindow. >> I've made this sort of change in a number of programs. It's very easy >> to do, but it's just as easy to query the display depth using >> XDefaultDepth, and it makes the application much more portable. True. Why does everyone use XDefaultDepth? It seems that X does not like to mix 1-bit depth windows & bitmaps with a display depth of greater than 1-bit depth. Xfish creates a background bitmap from data and then tries to set the windows background pixmap to the this bitmap. This is where things fail. Why???? -- Dwight Kelly UUCP: gatech!npiatl!dkelly Director R&D AT&T: (404) 962-7220 Network Publications, Inc 2 Pamplin Drive Lawrenceville, GA 30245 Publisher of "The Real Estate Book" nationwide!
jwb@mcnc.org (Jack W. Buchanan Jr.) (08/27/89)
In article <3648@helios.ee.lbl.gov> envbvs@epb2.lbl.gov (Brian V. Smith) writes: > >Weelll, I tried it on our Vaxstation 2000 4-plane color machines, >and after it puts up the background water (aquamarine in color) >with some bubbles, and it lowers itself to the bottom of the window >stack, the whole system gets wedged. Soon, no one on the machine >can do anything, AND the HALT button on the back doesn't even work! > >Has anyone else tried it on a VS2000 (4-plane color)? >Running X11.3 with patches 1-9, Ultrix 3.0 > >_____________________________________ >Brian V. Smith (bvsmith@lbl.gov) >Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory >We don't need no signatures! I'm the guy who said it was easy (and also gave a non device independent way to do it--I knew better in general, but I probably don't really know enough specifics about X to even post here (but I'm learning). As I pointed out in my message, what I actually did was run the program as a client on the Ultrix machine running Ultrix 3.0 I think, maybe 3.1 and UWS 2.1 (monochrome VaxStation II) and display on the DECWindows {VMS} server on a 4-plane color VAXStation 2000 running VMS 5.1-1. I made an assumption that if the program could run on ultrix and negotiate the ultrix-vms X interface to display on a VMS machine, it should certainly be able to do it all on ultrix (and 4.3bsd, and x11r3 instead of DECwindows),i.e. run properly on a 4 plane vaxstation running ultrix or bsd. This appears to have been an unwarranted assumption. Sorry for the confusion. Incidently, the ultrix machine was heavily loaded (for a vaxstation --1 user doing an extensive C compilation and 2 or 3 others doing editing/mail) when I was playing with this. The VMS vs 2000 was only displaying the fish. Jack Buchanan (jwb@mcnc.org)