Re: Mixer.app + AfterStep : wharf problem

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Hi!

Ok, I see the problem. WindowMaker uses the icon of the
applet and AfterStep uses the actual window (main) of
the applet. You will need to change the code in such
a way that Mixer.app uses the main window to draw
instead of the icon. Here is the patch that should
help you to set things straight:

Cheers!
Tigr

diff -ruN Mixer.app-1.7.0/Mixer.cc Mixer.app-1.7.0-AS/Mixer.cc
--- Mixer.app-1.7.0/Mixer.cc    Sat Mar 17 23:03:44 2001
+++ Mixer.app-1.7.0-AS/Mixer.cc Thu May  9 15:55:11 2002
@@ -226,13 +226,13 @@
    mRoot = RootWindow(mDisplay, DefaultScreen(mDisplay));

    // Create windows
-   mAppWin = XCreateSimpleWindow(mDisplay, mRoot, 1, 1, 10, 10, 0, 0, 0);
-   mIconWin = XCreateSimpleWindow(mDisplay, mAppWin, 0, 0, 10, 10, 0, 0,
0);
+   mIconWin = XCreateSimpleWindow(mDisplay, mRoot, 0, 0, 10, 10, 0, 0,
0);
+   mAppWin = XCreateSimpleWindow(mDisplay, mIconWin, 1, 1, 10, 10, 0, 0,
0);

    // Set classhint
    classHint.res_name =  mInstanceName;
    classHint.res_class = CLASSNAME;
-   XSetClassHint(mDisplay, mAppWin, &classHint);
+   XSetClassHint(mDisplay, mIconWin, &classHint);

    // Create delete atom
    deleteWindow = XInternAtom(mDisplay, "WM_DELETE_WINDOW", False);
@@ -240,8 +240,8 @@
    XSetWMProtocols(mDisplay, mIconWin, &deleteWindow, 1);

    // Set windowname
-   XStoreName(mDisplay, mAppWin, APPNAME);
-   XSetIconName(mDisplay, mAppWin, APPNAME);
+   XStoreName(mDisplay, mIconWin, APPNAME);
+   XSetIconName(mDisplay, mIconWin, APPNAME);

    // Set sizehints
    sizeHints.flags= USPosition;



On Sat, 6 Apr 2002, M.-A. DARCHE wrote:

> Hello steppers,
>
> I've got a problem with a WindowMaker applet called Mixer.app.
>
> I discovered Per Lidén's Mixer.app (http://www.fukt.hk-r.se/~per/mixer/)
> when giving a try to a new version of WindowMaker.
>
> Because I was very pleased by Mixer.app I wanted it on my AfterStep
> desktop, but Mixer.app would never show in my wharf :-(
>
> ~/GNUstep/Library/AfterStep/wharf
> ----->
> *Wharf Mixer - Swallow "mixer_app" /usr/local/GNUstep/Apps/Mixer.app/Mixer &
> <-----
>
>
> At first sight the problem seemed to be that Mixer.app had too small an
> initial size.
> So I just changed the initial size in Mixer.cc from 10x10 px to 64x64 px :
>
> //mAppWin = XCreateSimpleWindow(mDisplay, mRoot, 1, 1, 10, 10, 0, 0, 0);
> //mIconWin = XCreateSimpleWindow(mDisplay, mAppWin, 0, 0, 10, 10, 0, 0, 0);
> mAppWin = XCreateSimpleWindow(mDisplay, mRoot, 1, 1, 64, 64, 0, 0, 0);
> mIconWin = XCreateSimpleWindow(mDisplay, mAppWin, 0, 0, 64, 64, 0, 0, 0);
>
> That makes Mixer.app at least run as a usable X application.
> But when run from the Wharf (The AfterStep "Dock") a refresh problem still
> remains : Mixer shows up for a second and then becomes and remains black.
> The process seems to be still running though.
>
> The application is very stable now, and reported as working perfectly in
> WindowMaker. So why doesn't it work with AfterStep ? Anyone any idea ?
>
> Is it a problem from the applet, a problem from AfterStep ?
> Any hints and suggestions are most welcome, even if I don't have any
> knowledge of X programming (Mixer.app code looks clear and clean :-))
> I've already asked the author some time ago, but he doesn't know
> AfterStep and didn't have time to test Mixer.app with it :-(
>
> Cheers,
>
> PS:
> Running AfterStep 1.8.10 on Debian GNU/Linux "Woody"
>
>

Albert Tigr Dorofeev  -  albert at tigr.net  -  http://www.tigr.net/
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