| Title: | DECWINDOWS 26-JAN-89 to 29-NOV-90 |
| Notice: | See 1639.0 for VMS V5.3 kit; 2043.0 for 5.4 IFT kit |
| Moderator: | STAR::VATNE |
| Created: | Mon Oct 30 1989 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Dec 31 1990 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 3726 |
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Hi, anybody out there looking for some sticky problems ? These 'bugs' , 'problems' or whatever they turn out to be were reported by one of out German ISV. They are pretty excited about DECwindows, especially about UIL. They're developing their stuff in an FT2 environment. I reproduced some of their errors on Ultrix 3.0 DW BL 10.4 Here we go: 1. Widgets are not positioned according to the x- and y- coordinates in the UIL-File, but mostly placed at the default-position. 2. A PopupDialogBox has the argument auto_unmanage which should cause the DialogBox to disappear after the 'dismiss'- button is clicked. This doesn't happen. An extra call to XtUnmanageChild is necessary 3. Making a CautionBox a Child of DialogBox resultete in: not all Widgets have same parent by XtManageChild [note : I didn't see the source code, so I couldn't tell whether their code is buggy, seems to me it is] 4. A Listbox doesn't offer the possibility of a 'deselect'. Any work-around ???????? 5. According to the manual an 'activate' reason is generated when a PulldownEntry is activated. I couldn't catch it. When selecting an item out of a PulldownMenue I only got the 'activate' reason for the PushButton. p.s.: What's the sense in getting an 'activate' for the PushButtonEntry ???????????????????? That's it, folks. You can tell me anything you want (even yell at me or tell me to read my f*ing manuals [* stands for ascinat]), but I'm pretty grateful for any real help. Hans Andermann @ MUH DTN 756-1259
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| 169.1 | Possible Answer for Coordinate Problem | VENOM::DLUGOSZ | Ron Dlugosz, DTN 264-0306 | Thu Feb 09 1989 16:15 | 13 |
Its hard to tell from the description, but a common mistake is
to position widgets within an attached dialog box using pixel
coordinates, while the default positioning units are font units.
If this is the situation then
units = DwtPixelUnits
should fix the problem.
/ron
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| 169.2 | some partial answers and more questions | R2ME2::OBRYAN | When in doubt, let the user decide. | Thu Feb 09 1989 17:51 | 36 |
re:.0 > 1. Widgets are not positioned according to the x- and y- coordinates > in the UIL-File, but mostly placed at the default-position. Which widgets? What type of parent does each widget have? Many 'container' widgets overrided (by default) the x,y,width and height of their children. > 2. A PopupDialogBox has the argument > auto_unmanage > which should cause the DialogBox to disappear after the 'dismiss'- > button is clicked. This doesn't happen. An extra call to > XtUnmanageChild > is necessary Has this argument been explicitly set TRUE at create time? If so, then this is unusual behavior. > 3. Making a CautionBox a Child of DialogBox resultete in: > not all Widgets have same parent by XtManageChild > [note : I didn't see the source code, so I couldn't tell > whether their code is buggy, seems to me it is] A caution_box is a 'popup' style widgets. These widgets, if declared as children of another widget, must be declared 'unmanaged' in the UIL 'controls' section. After Fetching the parent, you must then XtManage the popup-child. > p.s.: What's the sense in getting an 'activate' for the > PushButtonEntry ???????????????????? Do you mean the PullDownEntry? If so, then this activate is called when a button is released in the Entry itself. An application may wish to take some default action on the up-click on the Entry, even though the normal user behavior would be to release the button within a child of the Entry (usually a pulldown_menu.) Michael | |||||