Re: fdesign bugs (xforms v0.85)

Dr. T.C. Zhao (zhao@bragg.phys.uwm.edu)
Sat, 21 Dec 1996 23:42:24 -0600

To subscribers of the xforms list from "Dr. T.C. Zhao" <zhao@bragg.phys.uwm.edu> :

From: "Bill Thompson" <akromld@en.com>
>1) There's a bug with the slider/valslider which causes fdesign to
> crash with a core dump.

Thanks. Verified and fixed. I have updated the testing version
on laue to V0.84 fixlevel2 for

linux/i386 (a.out and ELF)
Sun (Solaris and SunOS)
SGI irix5.3
Also added
IBM/RISC AIX4.1

FreeBSD and HP version will be provided soon.

> If you choose one of the color buttons in attributes, the attributes
> window is shoved (lowered) under the main fdesign window.
I might make this behave a little better, but can't make it
behave the way I want due to 4Dwm's handling of groups. Motif people
may not agree, but mwm(on which 4Dwm is based) is very annoying in
many ways.