| 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 |
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| Created: | Mon Oct 30 1989 |
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Hello,
I entered this in the GKS notes files but I would like to know if
anyone here has any feedback on this problem.
Thanks,
Norm
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Hello,
I have a quick question (I hope).
I am working to convert an application to work on a DECterm window.
There is a problem with GKS or the way DECwindows
interprets GKS output.
I "define GKS$wstype 13" in a DECterm window.
Then I run the application. For some reason GKS output is clipped
from the far right side of the screen. The application has SMG calls
made to draw a table but data is inserted into the table with GKS.
Originally, REGIS was used to change color of text output to
indicate warning and error conditions.
Using GKS to output the text didn't appear to be a major problem.
The application works fine on a terminal, the characters appear in the
proper locations. When the application is displayed on a DECterm window
things are skewed and the far left right is clipped. I'm not worried
about the skewing but the clipping of the right side makes things a
little tough.
Originally, when the viewport and ws_window was defined, the x coordinates
were 0 to .767. I altered the viewport and ws_window x coordinates to 0
to 1.0 but it didn't seem to help the problem of the right getting
clipped.
Any ideas or workarounds?
Norm
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| 1795.1 | Probably caused by character/window size differences | HANNAH::MESSENGER | Bob Messenger | Mon Nov 27 1989 19:10 | 23 |
Re: .0 What versions of DECwindows and VMS are you running? I don't know GKS; do you know what terminal type 13 is? I'd guess that the shape of the DECterm window is different from the shape of the terminal screen, so the output is scaled differently. Compared to the terminal, DECterm's window is too wide, using the default little/normal font (640 x 360 pixels vs. 800 x 480). This means that if GKS addresses the window as [0,0][799,479] there will be an area at the right side of the window that GKS won't be able to write to. What you might want to try is to change the number of rows and columns in the DECterm window so that the window is 800 by 480 pixels, which means 100 columns and 32 rows (the font is 8 x 15). This will make the graphics come out the right size, but it won't play very well with SMG. What you really need is a 10 by 20 pixel font, but I don't think this exists in DECwindows format. I think the bottom line here is that you can't depend on the interaction between text and graphics, so it will be hard to put GKS graphics in an SMG window. -- Bob | |||||