lwv27%CAS.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Larry W. Virden lwv27%cas.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.Edu) (03/20/91)
-------- Re: NeWS is not having problems, you're having difficulty understanding that X is not NeWS. In OW 2.0, if you want a nonrectangular window, you'll have to use NeWS, and by doing so the difference between X and NeWS will become all too obvious to you. :-) Nope - I am not having a difficulty. In many of the nondisclosure and training sessions subsequent to release of OpenWindows there was talk about how the interpreter worked. Discussions in particular dealt wiht how the interpreter would be able to handle any of the standard X protocols, and that as new protocols evolved, such as PEX, etc. that the interpreter should be able to be extended without a lot of problems. Other discussions dealt with the fact that NeWS would be able to do non-rectangular windows. Silly me thought - well, X11R4 thru the protocol, handles non-rec windows. NeWS handles non-rec windows. The interpreter handles X11R4 and NeWS. Therefore, SURELY the folks who wrote the interpreter added the few lines of calls that would take the X protocol requests and call the same routines (or similar ones) that NeWS protocols call. Then, when I saw the Xshape.o in Sun's libXext.a, I thought - "Ah Ha! I was right!". BUZZZZZZ! I was wrong apparently. -- Larry W. Virden UUCP: osu-cis!chemabs!lwv27 Same Mbox: BITNET: lwv27@cas INET: lwv27%cas.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.Edu Personal: 674 Falls Place, Reynoldsburg,OH 43068-1614 America Online: lvirden --------
lwv27%CAS.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Larry W. Virden lwv27%cas.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.Edu) (03/20/91)
-------- >> >> Seems funny that NeWS, with its innate shape capabilities, is having >> problems at this point, if indeed it is. > > The "problems" with NeWS have nothing to do with supporting > the X Window Shape extension. And also recall that an > extension may or *may not* be available... In this case, its not. > > Frank G. > > If you want "decent" arbitrary shapes for output *and* input, > use NeWS or Display Postscript. What _I_ want is to be able to use the various pgms posted to comp.sources.x and mit, as well as Sun's OpenWindows software. But it looks like I have to run two different servers to do that. Sigh. -- Larry W. Virden UUCP: osu-cis!chemabs!lwv27 Same Mbox: BITNET: lwv27@cas INET: lwv27%cas.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.Edu Personal: 674 Falls Place, Reynoldsburg,OH 43068-1614 America Online: lvirden --------