[6479] in SIPB bug reports
Re: XFig problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Fri Sep 12 16:44:52 1997
To: Salvatore Valente <svalente@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: 12 Sep 1997 16:44:08 -0400
In-Reply-To: Salvatore Valente's message of "Fri, 12 Sep 1997 16:39:40 -0400"
Salvatore Valente <svalente@MIT.EDU> writes:
> 2. Apparently, Aaron added /mit/sipb/share/X11/%T/%N%C to the start of
> the xfig XFILESEARCHPATH. I'd guess that the %C is supposed to allow
> it to use the Fig-Color Xresources. A note should be sent to bug-sipb
> about this cool new feature. (I'm not familiar with %C. Should it
> get the color resources automatically, or do I have to specify some
> command line option or environment variable to use it?)
%C expands to the program's customization setting; I have
#ifdef COLOR
*customization: -color
#endif
in my .Xresources so that when I'm using a color X server (which is
basically always) I get resources that specify pretty colors.
>
> 3. The Xaw3d library was recently installed in the sipb locker. Just
> for kicks, I linked xfig (on Solaris) with that library and installed
> it as xfig3d. This is a temporary hack. Try it out. If people seem
> to like it, I'll reinstall xfig for all platforms using the Xaw3d
> library, and if not, I'll just erase the Sun xfig3d program.
> (Frankly, I think it looks stupid. Maybe it would look better with
> color resources...?)
Yeah, 3D widgets look much better with color.
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Aaron M. Ucko <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu) [Stark raving sane]
