Re: 1.5.0 is coming

Guylhem AZNAR (guylhem@barberouge.linux.lmm.com)
Tue, 28 Jul 1998 11:34:34 +0200


On Mon, Jul 27, 1998 at 02:36:32PM -0500, David Mihm wrote:
> ! I've nearly finished 1.5.0 (devel. version, but kinda stable).
> 
> 	Great, I hope that one will work for me.

That's why I'm fixing every bug you reported :)
 
> 	I used the new homeanddirs.c you sent, it fit in okay - noe
> errors, with it.  I also tried all the you had suggested in your last
> email about the Wharf not working for me.

Ok, do main afterstep flawlessly works nows ?

Except Wharf, is there any module or asapps coredumping ?
 
> 2) Letting AS create the ~G/L/A tree = still no "functioning" wharf (see
> below).
> 	I had some free time to try everything again.  Absolutely *no*
> errors compiling on my machine aside from the libwidget not getting built
> for Script (surely this isn't related?!).  No change from default

(yep ! I forgot to put it in Imakefile ; just run cd Widget ; xmkmf ; make)

> configure.  Started AS without ~G/L/A tree, it built it; no wharf appeared
> - either did the Winlist or Banner!  Could this be a bad Wait function in

What if you lauch them with Start/Modules/(Winlist or Banner) menu ?
Whaf if you delete Wharf entry in autoexec ?

I corrected Banner shaping, so you can try to remove transparent pixels in
include/afterstep.xpm to see if it helps (just replace "None" by "White")

> At this point, I cp'd the share wharf.file to the ~G/L/A tree and
> commented out all but one entry (asmail).  The wharf appeared and without
> the above error.  Having already cp'd my asmail(rc) to the ~G/L/A tree, I
> was surprised to see asmail not using it as the rc.file (temp solution,
> cp old asmail bin over "new" bin - wharf is the main problem)!

I've checked asmail :
(guylhem@barberouge:asmail)$ grep FILENAME *
asmail.c:#define FILENAME               "asmail"
asmail.c:       strcat(CfgFile, FILENAME);
asmail.c:       strcat(CfgFile, FILENAME);
asmail.c:           fprintf(stderr, "asmail: '%s' not found in '%s' or
'%s', using default settings\n", FILENAME, AFTER_DIR, AFTER_SHAREDIR);

So it *should* use your ~G/L/A/asmail !

>   X Error of failed request:  BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
>     Major opcode of failed request:  138 (SHAPE)
>     Minor opcode of failed request:  2 (X_ShapeMask)
>     Resource id in failed request:  0x3400027
>     Serial number of failed request:  1160
>     Current serial number in output stream:  1162
> 
> I pressume just complaining about being killed.  Next i uncomment one more
> wharf.file line -

No, it's "Shape" new function : if you use a background with transparent
pixels, wharf is nicely cut so you can see throught it.

>   'Digitizer' at (0,0,64,64)
>   X Error of failed request:  BadPixmap (invalid Pixmap parameter)
>     Major opcode of failed request:  54 (X_FreePixmap)
>     Resource id in failed request:  0xa0000000
>     Serial number of failed request:  129
>     Current serial number in output stream:  154
> 
> The icon Tablet.xpm is a "clean" xpm (no xv garbage) 48x48x60x1 typical
> static char.

What if you add a transparent pixel ?
It was a bug in AfterStep pre1 versions.

> 	I have tried each and every combination of each and every icon/app
> together, so it's not limited to module and module or applet to applet -
> it's even simple icon and icon that refuses to work.

Please send me that icon.

I've some ideas of what might occurs.

> I hope that can help in asisting me in providing you with furthur
> information to solve this paculiar "bug".  Unfortuantely it appears as I
> am the only one who is experiencing it :~(.  Is there someone besides

I'll try to reproduce it with your icon.

> yourself that is specifically working on the wharf that mght be able to
> shed more light on the subject - I didn't see on in the Team list.

Except Ethan Ficher and Mickael Vitecek, rest of the coders vanished 3
month ago :-(

Since Ethan wrote this new wharf, maybe could you try to mail him ?
(I don't know whether he can read is university email in summer ?)

> ! Guylhem
> 
> Thanks for your time!

That's normal.

BTW, you talked about wmapps in afterstep list some weeks ago.

Good news : I've talked with Alfredo Kojima (from WindowMaker), he likes
the idea of uniting asapps & wmapps altogether in a common apps package for
both AfterStep and WindowMaker.

It would be a snapshot of latest working versions of all apps ; I'll "port"
the one causing problems to work with both AS new Wharf and WM Dock.

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