Re: XForms: File Browser Problems

Steve Lamont (spl@szechuan.ucsd.edu)
Tue, 9 Feb 99 10:41:15 PST

# To subscribers of the xforms list from spl@szechuan.ucsd.edu (Steve Lamont) :

> Not mailed this list for a while (not had any XForms problems for a
> while !!) but I've just installed XForms (0.88) on a new machine
> running RedHat Linux (i386) - latest version - with Xi Graphics
> Accelerated Xserver. The file browser in XForms doesn't work
> correctly on this platform - when you browse (eg using the fbrowse
> demo program) you just get a whole heap of "D" entries (no text
> after the "D") and can't actually see any directory or
> filenames. Double clicking has no effect (so it isn't just the font
> that is messing up). If you manually type in a filename and press
> return it will work (file will load/save/etc) but mouse browsing is
> not possible. Has anyone else come across this ?

This sounds familiar. I'm not a Linuxer so someone else on the list
may want to correct me but I believe this is one of the infamous
library skew problems. Have you checked to see if you have the
correct version of XForms for your version of libc?

spl
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