nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley) (10/26/90)
In article <9010251426.AA17378@richter.mit.edu> krowitz@RICHTER.MIT.EDU (David Krowitz) writes: >Kee, here's a question for you (since you were in the graphics group at >Chelmsford) ... Not really, I was in User Environment. But anyway. >How do existing GPR and GMR programs works in an X-only evironment (assuming >that there are no PAD_$ calls in them)? Do frame, direct, and borrow mode >graphics work in an X environment from GPR and GMR? If you mean raw, borrow-mode X with no share-mode extensions the answer is simple. They don't work at all. They just hang trying to start up. They aren't particularly killable either, since they hang somewhere in the depths of the system. In share-mode you can run borrow-mode stuff fine. Frame mode I believe is a DM-ism, so you'd have to be in a pad. Direct mode also wants a pad-id to start up, but there are calls that use a rectangle-id (Apollo'ism for window-id, but not the same as the X ones) to initialize things instead. For what it's worth dde does run in raw X, although without the graphics of course. It also spits out some rather funny errors about your device not supporting graphics. I still find it better to use than dbx. The only major problem is that the view command is broken (is anyone listening? should I bother sending in an apr?) and will only show one line at a time. I suppose I should be thankful it has one at all, it almost didn't. -- Alphalpha Software, Inc. | motif-request@alphalpha.com nazgul@alphalpha.com |----------------------------------- 617/646-7703 (voice/fax) | Proline BBS: 617/641-3722 I'm not sure which upsets me more; that people are so unwilling to accept responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate everyone else's.