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Title:MRU Internal Bug Reports
Moderator:COOKIE::STMARTIN
Created:Wed Sep 20 1995
Last Modified:Wed Jun 04 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:346
Total number of notes:1175

336.0. "OP:HIGH Dave's Drag and Drop problem." by NABETH::alan (Dr. File System's Home for Wayward Inodes.) Mon May 05 1997 19:21

Dave is running VMS V6.2 and MRU FT1.2 on a TL812 on an HSJ running V3.1
of HSOF and Excursion V2.1 on my ALpha Nt 4.0 server box. 

   1. When I try to drag and drop anything in the xrobot screen it hangs the 
      display and all other X displays I have.  I have to nuke the xrobot display
      to regain contol of my other X displays.  I can successfully use the point
      and click interface.
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336.1NABETH::alanDr. File System's Home for Wayward Inodes.Mon May 05 1997 19:309
	I tested this against a V2 version of Excusion on a debug version
	of Windows NT on Steve Malan's old system.  On both OpenVMS VAX V6.2
	and Alpha V7.1 it worked fine, if slowly.  I'll create a debugging
	version of the drag and drop code to see if will offer a clue where
	the problem is.

	It would be interesting to know what version of DECwindows is
	running on that node of SSDEVO...  It appears that we don't
	do a static link vs. the DECwindows runtime libraries.
336.2Close.NABETH::alanDr. File System's Home for Wayward Inodes.Thu May 08 1997 17:3016
	This definately appears to be a DECwindows version problem on
	the particular SSDEVO node.  It is running DW V1.2-940307,
	while COOKIE has DW V1.2-3960214 or later.  While studying
	the problem closely I found that when using MB1 start a drag
	the problem (or one like it) occured on any X server, but
	if MB2 was used to finish the drag it worked (sort of).  If
	MB2 was used to start the drag, it behaved better though
	strangely.

	Given the difference in DECwindows libraries I think SSDEVO
	is running an early Motif V1.2 version with flakey drag and
	drop support.  I have advised Dave to upgrade.

	For our part I'm going to try a more static link against the
	versions of libraries on COOKIE.  I doubt I'll keep this
	change, but I want to see what it does.
336.3NABETH::alanDr. File System's Home for Wayward Inodes.Thu May 08 1997 17:555
	Putting the recent DECwindows libraries in our semi-private
	sys$share/sys$library had no particular affect.  I suspect
	that it is still a dynamic link and is picking up the system
	copies at run-time.  The link is finishing much too quickly
	to be a true static link.