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Conference csc32::consolemanager

Title:	POLYCENTER Console Manager
Notice:	Kits, Scans, Docs on CSC32:: as PCM$KITS:,PCM$DOCS:, PCM$SCANS:
Moderator:	CSC32::BUTTERWORTH

Created:	Thu Aug 06 1992
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1541
Total number of notes:	6564

294.0. "Motif vs Character Interfaces differences ..." by TLSE01::ROUILHAC () Wed Jul 06 1994 12:26

    Hi guys,
    
    I'm moving an application thas is using VCS Configuration Editor to the
    replacement product for VCS: PCM 1.5 (under OpenVMS).
    
    I've installed PCM. When using X-Motif interface for creating/modifying
    events, context start and context count values are 0-256. When using
    Character Cell interface, values are 0-999 for context start and 1-1000
    for context count !!! If I come back with X-Motif Interface and scale
    values are greater than 256, an X Toolkit Warning is issued by the
    Motif Toolkit... I suppose that a little bug is walking here !!!
    
    My question: which ranges are correct (and sufficient) 0-256 or 0-999
                 (start) ??? and 0-256 or 1-1000 (count) ????
    
    Thanks for your answer.
    
    Michel-

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
294.1		OPG::PHILIP	And through the square window...	`Wed Jul 06 1994 14:28`	16
	Michel, The Character Cell and Motif editor interfaces were originally written by two different people (I wrote the Motif interface and Dave Bigelow wrote the character cell one) we obviously interpreted our functional spec in two different ways giving the side effect you see. I have noted it on our bug list and a fix will be in either the first patch kit or the next release, whichever comes first. The fix will be to apply the same range checking in both editors. As for which range is correct, well, either as the software doesnt really care about these values, they are just ranges chosen for the editor, we could actually remove them completely without any problems. Cheers, Phil
294.2		CSC32::BUTTERWORTH	Gun Control is a steady hand.	`Wed Jul 06 1994 20:47`	9
	>either as the software doesnt really care about these values, they are >just ranges chosen for the editor, we could actually remove them >completely without any problems. Hows that?! If we don't have context start/count values how would ENS know the relevant lines when a user asks to show an event with context...... or I completely missed what you were trying to say. Dan
294.3	The latter	ZENDIA::DBIGELOW	Innovate, Integrate, Evaporate	`Wed Jul 06 1994 22:48`	13
	Dan, >Hows that?! If we don't have context start/count values how would ENS >know the relevant lines when a user asks to show an event >with context...... or I completely missed what you were trying to say. I think it's the latter. The internal editor code doesn't really care what the limits are. Only ENS and the retrieval routines do. Theoretically, these routines should work with a limitless context start and count. If I read this correctly, Phil is stating that we could remove the limitations and not the actual values. Dave
294.4	Spot on Dave.	OPG::PHILIP	And through the square window...	`Thu Jul 07 1994 12:39`	0