Conference bulova::decw_jan-89_to_nov-90

    This has something to do with having done:
    
    XDefineCursor (disp, wind, XCreateFontCursor (disp, XC_watch));
    
    inside the event handler.  When I took this out, everything worked
    ok.
    
    Is there something wrong with the above?
    
    Thanks.
    -pd

Try:

    {
    static Cursor watchCursor;
    if (!watchCursor) watchCursor = XCreateFontCursor (disp, XC_watch);
    XDefineCursor (disp, wind, watchCursor);
    }

Re/ .2:

Tried it.  Didn't work.

Actually, what I did was to globally declare variables for the cursors
I'm using, define those cursors once in my main function, and then have
functions which set and unset the watch cursor.

What's strange is:  I call the cursor setting functions from inside a
button event handler with no problem, but when I call them from my
pulldown menu callback routine, the server goes into this weird state
and my application gets no further events, reports, or anything.  Other
clients continue to work.

I should mention that I'm running UWS 2.2, and Motif BL1, in a diskless environment.

There is a known bug in the Ultrix X server dealing with the OPEN FONT
protocol request.  You may be seeing this here.  You may be able to
work around it by doing a XSync() just before the XCreateFontCursor() call.

Ken

    Another hint: I had a problem that was similar with a Motif
    application; XSetFontCursor did all sort of odd things. It turned out
    that I was including the *XUI* version of Intrinsic.h - you CAN NOT use
    that with the Motif intrinsics --- XtWindow returns the wrong thing.
    	-Rick

Interesting ...

I WAS using the wrong Intrinsic.h, so I moved the Motif one over.  That
fixed another problem I had been having, but it did NOT fix the
SetFontCursor problem. It still hangs.

The other problem was then when I did a XtGetValues on a widget, I was
able to get the widget's height, but the width always came back as 0.

    re: your last problem; the reason it failed on the XtGetValues is that
    Motif defines Position as int and Dimension as Cardinal [unsigned int].
    X11R3 (at least the XUI include files..) define Position as short and
    Dimension as ShortCard [unsigned short]. The toolkit code's management
    of the structure fields don't agree with your code, so badness
    happens.. specifically with XtWindow and so forth - macros that pick
    fields out of the Core widget structure.
    
    Anyway, with your problem, it sounds like you still have mismatch
    somewhere - you need to searchlist thru the Motif directories for
    everything before looking in the XUI directories.
    
    On VMS, using "#include <X11/file>" works if you've invoked
    the DXM_LOGICALS command file. On Ultrix, I use -I to define the motif
    directory root as the root of the include tree.
    	-I/motif/distr/lib -I/motif/distr/lib/Xt 
    does it for me - but I don't grok Ultrix too well..
    	-Rick