mcgregor@NCIFCRF.GOV (02/12/88)
I have a beginng NeWS user question: I am running Suntools' Mailtool. I click on the 'done' button. The Mailtool icon appears at the upper left corner. The Mailtool canvas (or is it still a window even under NeWS) persists, but is non-functional. Is there a reasonably simple explanation for this? The details of the situation are as follows: 1. I am working on a SUN 3/50 diskless node. 2. We are using Version 1.0 of NeWS. 3. I have a "console" canvas which I invoked from the walking menu that is activated by the Right Button Action on the background region. This canvas is obscurred by the Mailtool canvas. 4. To correct this problem I click on the icon, wait for Mailtool to "settle down" then click on the 'done' button or 'close' via the title bar menu. There are some rather bizarre warpings of the cursor and widespread effects, that are rather tough to describe, associated with this phenomena. If anyone is interested I can try to desribe them later, but I am not sure its necessary for my question here. Thank you for the help. George McGregor @ NCI Supercomputer Facility c/o PRI, Inc. Phone: (301) 698-5789 PO Box B, Bldng. 430 Uucp: ...!uunet!mimsy!elsie!ncifcrf!mcgregor Frederick, MD 21701 Arpa: mcgregor@ncifcrf.gov
klee@daisy.UUCP (Ken Lee) (02/13/88)
In article <8802111706.AA18085@fcs50a.ncifcrf.gov> mcgregor@NCIFCRF.GOV writes: > >I have a beginng NeWS user question: > > I am running Suntools' Mailtool. I click on the 'done' button. > The Mailtool icon appears at the upper left corner. The Mailtool > canvas (or is it still a window even under NeWS) persists, but is > non-functional. Is there a reasonably simple explanation for this? Remember that mailtool is a SunView program written for the SunView environment (suntools, etc.). Sun was careful to make these work under NeWS, but there are some differences between NeWS and SunView window management. These mainly show up in event handling, such as repainting (your problem) and mouse following (hence the DMZ around SunView windows). All these problems are documented in the NeWS manual. Your problem is that the NeWS background (under the mailtool) is not repainted when you close the mailtool. If you wish, you can manually repaint, choosing the function from the NeWS root menu. Ken