[12182] in Athena Bugs
multi's use of console
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (alexp@MIT.EDU)
Fri Jul 1 11:51:27 1994
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Date: Fri, 1 Jul 94 11:51:16 EDT
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>Subject: multi's use of console
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>What were you trying to do?
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> I was trying to see if we had the new version of multi for the
> decstation yet.
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>What went wrong?
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> It tried to tell me some useful stuff in a popup window by using the
> console program. Unfortunately, it used the X resources for
> `console'. In particular, this one:
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> console*form.form: hide: 100 0 - - \
> scrollup: 0 0 - - \
> scrolldown: 0 - - 100 \
> scrollBarWindow: 0 scrollup - scrolldown \
> textDisplayWindow: scrollBarWindow 0 100 100 \
> title: 100 0 110 textDisplayWindow
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> This doesn't leave me with a visible `hide' button, which I like for
> the normal console, but which is annoying for multi's informational
> popup.
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>What should have happened?
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> Multi's informational popup shouldn't have used the X resources for
> `console', since it's not really console. In particular it uses
> res_name `console' and res_class `Console'. It shouldn't do this
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>Anything else to add?
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> Yeah. I reported a very similar bug once before, if anyone feels
> like digging around for it.
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Hi, just started looking at this- Anne Lavin suggested that you drop by
both of us when you are on the floor; it's probably simplest to discuss
this in person. One point that might shed some light though: when you
refer to the "useful stuff in the popup window": I assume you mean the
console window that appears initially, when you first start Multi: if
so, then this may explain what is going on: that first popup is really
from the console program, and was set up by us, not Green Hills. So if
it uses console resources, it's because it really is the console.
We still might have done something that conflicts with user-modified
resources (though we thought we fixed that last time). Anyway drop
by and we can probably fix this quickly.
PS: Still haven't seen the "official" new Multi- but I will nag them again.
Alex Prengel, Jr.
Academic Computing Services
Software Acquisition Coordinator
