mcqueen@acf4.NYU.EDU (David M. McQueen) (11/16/89)
We have recently upgraded to IRIX 3.2 and I notice (so far) two peculiarities:
(1) It seems to be impossible to force a stowed window to stay at
a location other than the original stowed location. Even after
dragging the icon to a new position, upon reopening and restowing,
the icon goes back to the location it had when first stowed.
Does anyone know how to make a positioned-by-hand icon stay at that
position through subsequent reopenings? If the solution involves
modifying some postscript file, please do not be too terse; I still
find postscript to be somewhat obscure.
(2) We have several programs which employ the textport to input data
to a graphics program to alter the image. They all tucked the
textport (a window about 40 characters wide by 3 lines high)
unobtrusively into the lower left hand corner of the screen, an area
into which our image never went. After recompiling and relinking
PREVIOUSLY WORKING CODE, I find the textport window is now a very
obtrusive 80 characters wide by 7 lines high centered at the bottom
of my image area. Has anyone experienced this problem, and if so,
have you figured out a remedy?
Dave McQueenblbates@AERO4.LARC.NASA.GOV ("Brent L. Bates AAD/TAB MS294 x42854") (11/16/89)
(1) Gee that is annoying. SUN windows works the way you would
like it to work, as you were hoping the SGI windows would
work. If you put a window and its icon in specific places
you would think that they would return to those places.
I guess SGI has some catching up to do.
--
Brent L. Bates
NASA-Langley Research Center
M.S. 294
Hampton, Virginia 23665-5225
(804) 864-2854
E-mail: blbates@aero4.larc.nasa.gov or blbates@aero2.larc.nasa.govmcqueen@acf4.NYU.EDU (David M. McQueen) (11/16/89)
I received several FAST responses from personnel at SGI (thank you Brendan, Michael, Scott) on my IRIX 3.2 surprise #1. In case there is interest in this out there, look in /usr/people/4Dgifts/.4sight for interesting (and understandable) examples of how to make the desktop look and act the way you want it to. Thanks again, Dave McQueen
thant@horus.esd.sgi.com (Thant Tessman) (11/17/89)
In article <8911160157.AA24392@aero4.larc.nasa.gov>, blbates@AERO4.LARC.NASA.GOV ("Brent L. Bates AAD/TAB MS294 x42854") writes: > > (1) Gee that is annoying. SUN windows works the way you would > like it to work, as you were hoping the SGI windows would > work. If you put a window and its icon in specific places > you would think that they would return to those places. > I guess SGI has some catching up to do. I was waiting for someone else to respond to the original posting. I wasn't expecting Brent L. Bates to do it first. First, copy from /usr/NeWS/lib/user.ps to user.ps in your own home directory. Next, look for the three lines in your copy of user.ps that look like: %% whether icons are automaticly tidied up is controled by TidyState % UserProfile /TidyState /Always put % default state % UserProfile /TidyState /Never put % pre- 4D3.2 release behavior Change them to make it look like: %% whether icons are automaticly tidied up is controled by TidyState % UserProfile /TidyState /Always put % default state UserProfile /TidyState /Never put % pre- 4D3.2 release behavior There are other goodies in there to change as well if you like. thant -- There are 336 dimples on the standard golf ball.
mtoy@sgi.com (Michael Toy) (11/17/89)
In article <17280027@acf4.NYU.EDU>, mcqueen@acf4.NYU.EDU (David M. McQueen) writes: > > We have recently upgraded to IRIX 3.2 and I notice (so far) two peculiarities: > > (1) It seems to be impossible to force a stowed window to stay at > a location other than the original stowed location. > ... > Dave McQueen I thought I had posted a reply to this, but it seems to have been dropped. I'll post again and apologize in advance for the double posting in case both get through. Point #1, icons stack themselves in neat little rows when you stow windows. This new feature (or mis-feature, depending on your expectations) is described in the release notes (relnotes -p eoe1 -c 5) and in the 4sight Programmer's Guide, in the default "user.ps" file in /usr/NeWS/lib and in the example customization log in account "4Dgifts". Or, if you don't care to learn about any new features, you can tell 4sight to have the pre 3.2 behavior by adding the line UserProfile /TidyState /Never put to the file "user.ps" in your home directory. Michael Toy
blbates@AERO4.LARC.NASA.GOV ("Brent L. Bates AAD/TAB MS294 x42854") (11/17/89)
Good, quick, precise responce. Good job. I am sorry for under estimating SGI's windows. (How many SGI heart attack's did this note cause. :-) ) -- Brent L. Bates NASA-Langley Research Center M.S. 294 Hampton, Virginia 23665-5225 (804) 864-2854 E-mail: blbates@aero4.larc.nasa.gov or blbates@aero2.larc.nasa.gov