[6840] in Athena Bugs
vax 7.1H: X Windows
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Jan 9 07:03:34 1991
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 91 07:03:18 -0500
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
To: rar@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: bugs[6054]
A few months ago, you sent the bug report included below to "bugs".
The bug report is wrong; I'll explain why.
First of all, you must realize that when you were told (by me, I
suspect) that the bug would be fixed in the next release, what was
meant that the bug would be fixed *in the X libraries* in the next
release. The bug was a bug in the X Athena Aidget set, and therefore
needed to be fixed in the X Athena Widget library.
Now, since all of the X clients *in the release* are linked against
the new X libraries when the release is built, this means that all of
the X clients in the new release have this bug fixed.
However, the xdiscuss program is not in the release, it's in the sipb
locker, and it was not linked against the new X libraries when the new
release came out. Indeed, the sources to it are old and out-of-date
enough that it *can't* be linked against the newest X libraries.
So this is a problem with xdiscuss, not with Athena. I will forward
your bug report to the person who maintains xdiscuss, although I don't
think it's likely that he will be fixing the bug in the near future
(he's busy with a lot of other things right now).
Jonathan Kamens
Project Athena Quality Assurance
Reference:
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 90 13:40:47 EDT
From: Roger A. Roach <rar@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
System name: RAR
Type and version: MVAX-II 7.1H
Display type: QVSS
What were you trying to do?
Trying to scroll a window that happened to be partially behind
another window.
What's wrong:
If you scroll up (or down) in a window that is under another
window, the data that is scrolled up (or down) is blanked out.
What should have happened:
The data should be displayed.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
First submitted as a bug in Sept, 1988. I was told that it
was going to be fixed in the next release, but it is still with us.
To demostrate:
Start up a window with scroll bars (I used xdiscuss with the
INFO-MAC meeting). Stretch the window so that it goes from the top of
the screen to the bottm. Start up a new application (e.g. emacs) with
the window overlaying the xdiscuss one. Use the scroll bars on the
xdiscuss window. Scroll up or down and see thw words disappear.
