rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony) (04/22/91)
I just have a couple of random questions... a) Has anyone gotten vgrind to work? I get some strange messages that I can't make head or tail of. If there is no simple solution, I'll ask_next the problem... b) Who can give me the name of a reasonably priced midi-interface that works and has been tested on a 040 cube? c) for a small app and for prototypes, I want as a quick hacky solution to printing to print just the whole window as shown on screen. This work fairly well by sendin the window a smartPrintPS message (this can be set up entirely from IB). Now the problem comes: if you define your own PS functions that are used in one of the windows subviews and define them when you initFrame: the view, these are unknown to the printer, since they are not defined each time you do a drawSelf: I understand that there is beginSetup method, that should be called automatically when something is printed, exactly to avoid this problem. However when I put in there my initialization PS code, this seems not to be recognized either. Am I missing something obvious? My ad hoc solution is to call the init. functions each time when I do a drawSelf: and define the custom functions only when they are not yet defined (where command). However I don't like this approach too much. Again, if there is no simple solution known, I'll ask_next. d) This is not a question, but a suggestion: WordPerfect is available for PC-Unix boxes and bigger iron with a character interface. I thought it would be a nice touch if WordPerfect added this version of WP to the NeXT distribution. This would allow users access to their files even from remote terminals and when logged in via a modem. Not only would this be VERY convenient, but also a big advantage over WriteNow that is completely useless when one happens not to be at the console... I hope they give it a good though. It would certainly convice me to switch from WriteNow to WP... Ronald ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." G.B. Shaw | rca@cs.brown.edu or antony@browncog.bitnet
gene@ponder.csci.unt.edu (Gene De Lisa) (04/23/91)
My vgrind gives me a dread: cannot read defaults error msg. I still get an ok postscript file that I can print but the error msg screws up the index try vgrind -t -lobj foo.m > foo.ps -- more direct: vortech!gene@Central.Sun.COM