fangchin@elaine42.Stanford.EDU (Chin Fang) (05/16/91)
Hello,
I applied Dan Greening's R4 client/lib patches to our src tree and successfully
built/install all of them. Testing so far indicates no major problems except
the following few:
(1) is it true that IBM's R3 server can not use rgb.txt from R4?
for instance, BlanchedAlmond is not understood by IBM X server.
(2) when you run twm, how can you make menu entries show up right after the
menu pop up? I have to drag the ptr down to make them visible. Besides,
If I pop up a submenu, once it's gone, the parent menu is botched. ie,
there is a block of plain color, unless I drag the ptr over that area
again.
This becomes particularly annoying if I use InterpolateMenuColor.
(3) how about fonts? Does the R3 server understand all Standard R4 fonts?
I haven't covert them yet. Before I do, I like to hear others' experience
I do know that even people at Saber Software complain about some font
related problems at their site.
I would appreciate it very much if anyone who has done this before could
share some of your experience. A summary is promised if there is enough
interest.
Regards,
Chin Fang
Mechanical Engineering Department
Stanford University
fangchin@leland.stanford.eduwoan@exeter.austin.ibm.com (Ronald S Woan) (05/16/91)
In article <1991May16.001316.5190@leland.Stanford.EDU> fangchin@elaine42.Stanford.EDU (Chin Fang) writes: >(1) is it true that IBM's R3 server can not use rgb.txt from R4? > for instance, BlanchedAlmond is not understood by IBM X server. I thought it could... I don't remember a table format change... Aren't you supposed to run rgb on the file or something to generate the database? >(2) when you run twm, how can you make menu entries show up right after the > menu pop up? I have to drag the ptr down to make them visible. Besides, > If I pop up a submenu, once it's gone, the parent menu is botched. ie, > there is a block of plain color, unless I drag the ptr over that area > again. This is fixed in the 3005 update... I think the problem only cropped up in the 3003 version. >(3) how about fonts? Does the R3 server understand all Standard R4 fonts? > I haven't covert them yet. Before I do, I like to hear others' experience > > I do know that even people at Saber Software complain about some font > related problems at their site. They should, but I have heard that there are problems in 3005 and maybe some of the earlier versions, as well, even with some of the non-IBM fonts shipped. -- +-----All Views Expressed Are My Own And Are Not Necessarily Shared By------+ +------------------------------My Employer----------------------------------+ + Ronald S. Woan woan@cactus.org or woan@austin.vnet.ibm.com + + other email addresses Prodigy: XTCR74A Compuserve: 73530,2537 +