rfinch@caldwr.water.ca.gov (Ralph Finch) (10/11/90)
Setup: Sun 4, SunOS 4.1, Openwindows 2.0 (? - whatever the latest is). I can't get either the spreadsheet or the magic lantern utilities to work properly with the above setup. They compile fine, and start up apparently normally, but when I pick a cell or box and try to type something nothing happens. I suspect there is some glitch in Openwindows which causes this, and would like to know if others have experienced the same difficulty, and if so, did you fix it? -- Ralph Finch 916-445-0088 rfinch@water.ca.gov ...ucbvax!ucdavis!caldwr!rfinch Any opinions expressed are my own; they do not represent the DWR
dwf@hope.lanl.gov (David W. Forslund) (10/12/90)
In article <239@newhope.water.ca.gov> rfinch@caldwr.water.ca.gov (Ralph Finch) writes:
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From: rfinch@caldwr.water.ca.gov (Ralph Finch)
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Setup: Sun 4, SunOS 4.1, Openwindows 2.0 (? - whatever the latest
is).
I can't get either the spreadsheet or the magic lantern utilities to
work properly with the above setup. They compile fine, and start up
apparently normally, but when I pick a cell or box and try to type
something nothing happens. I suspect there is some glitch in
Openwindows which causes this, and would like to know if others have
experienced the same difficulty, and if so, did you fix it?
--
Ralph Finch 916-445-0088
rfinch@water.ca.gov ...ucbvax!ucdavis!caldwr!rfinch
Any opinions expressed are my own; they do not represent the DWR
I noticed the problem also. I suspect it is an input focus problem.
OpenWindows and its window manager, olwm, are ICCCM compliant which
requires the application to request input focus in a correct manner
in order to accept events from the keyboard. The fix has been
mentioned in comp.windows.x a number of times and is, I believe, in
the OpenWindows documentation.
--
David Forslund
Advanced Computing Laboratory
MS B287
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos, NM 87545
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FAX: (505) 665-4939
EMAIL: dwf@lanl.gov