[XForms] Re: Moving towards 1.1?

[jason cipriani]

> I am not happy about shipping 1.1 with your GL context sharing stuff 
> because it *does* cause my machine to crash. I assume that you'll 
> eventually upgrade your machines from RH8,9?

That stuff works on at least Redhat versions 6 through 9 (and OS X 10.3.0-10.3.6), and has been working stably for quite 
some time. I had problems with -normal- GL stuff crashing the X server (and even carrying GL states over into other 
applications *gasp*) on Fedora Core 1. Have not tried anything with Fedora 2+. It -seems- to be unique to Fedora. We weren't 
planning on "upgrading", except Fedora 2.6 has some nice thread/process scheduling features that we want to take 
advantage of; so we'll be switching at least one machine to Fedora soon and I can try to recreate the problems. BTW, what 
kind of graphics card (and what driver revisions) do you have on your system (apologies if you've already told me)? And you 
aren't still running Fedora Core 1 are you? Do you have the latest version of the X server? I'm not pushing, necessarily, to have 
the context sharing patch shipped with XForms; I'm just wondering if it will or won't, for organizational reasons. Looks like it 
won't.

> > As far as the context sharing stuff goes, I will post a patch
> > shortly that has the combined contents of both the original patches
> > plus the fix to the #include'd file in glcanvas_spec.c.
> 
> What's this? I guess I've missed it.

Er, I coulda sworn I sent out a mail about this, but I can't find it in the archives. In glcanvas_spec.c, it #includes "forms.h" 
instead of "include/forms.h" or something like that.

> > On a different note, I asked a question awhile back about the
> > missing publicly defined FL_NoColor, in regards to backgroundless
> > canvases. Exporting FL_NoColor in forms.h would make people feel
> > more comfortable about using it to turn off canvas background
> > drawing, I think (rather than just passing 0x7FFFFFFF).
> 
> I guess that I also missed this question. How about the attached 
> patch?

Perfect! Thanks! :D Original message is at http://bob.usuhs.mil/pipermail/xforms/2004/000499.html.

Jason