| 1 | Wcl 2.6 is Now Available |
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| 2 | ************************ |
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| 3 | |
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| 4 | A new update of Wcl is now available. A few enhancements have been |
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| 5 | made, and the never-ending-effort to make Wcl easier to build on a |
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| 6 | wider range of platforms has resulted in a couple more minor tweaks. |
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| 7 | |
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| 8 | Consider this a bug fix and portability upgrade. |
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| 9 | |
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| 10 | The README for this distribution says: |
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| 11 | |
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| 12 | |
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| 13 | Widget Creation Library Version 2.6 Distribution |
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| 14 | ------------------------------------------------ |
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| 15 | |
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| 16 | The distribution contains files which make up the Widget Creation |
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| 17 | Library (Wcl or libWc.a), and resource interpreters and utility |
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| 18 | libraries (which include Table widgets) for each of the following |
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| 19 | widget sets: Athena, Motif, and OpenLook. |
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| 20 | |
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| 21 | Wcl is completely widget set independent. It provides mechanisms to |
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| 22 | allow an entire user interface to be specified in resource files. |
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| 23 | Basically, this amounts to providing new resources for specifying the |
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| 24 | types of the widgets and the widget heirarchy. In addition, Wcl |
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| 25 | provides several callbacks and action functions which many programs |
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| 26 | need. |
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| 27 | |
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| 28 | See README20 for general information about Wcl version 2, and README22 |
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| 29 | for additional features introduced in Wcl version 2.2 and version 2.1, |
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| 30 | and README23 for new features in Wcl 2.3, README24 for new features |
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| 31 | in Wcl 2.4, and README25 for new features in Wcl 2.5 |
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| 32 | |
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| 33 | New Features of Wcl 2.6 |
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| 34 | ------------------------ |
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| 35 | |
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| 36 | brokenXmTextShowPosition When XmText widgets are used for Wcl messages |
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| 37 | via XmpMessageWidget, sometimes there can |
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| 38 | be a problem with XmTextShowPosition. If so |
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| 39 | in specific cases, you can set this attribute |
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| 40 | to somewhat avoid the side effects. Sigh. |
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| 41 | |
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| 42 | New Platform Support |
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| 43 | -------------------- |
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| 44 | HP 'Snake' platforms MakeByHand can be used to build the distribution |
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| 45 | by using WcMake1.hp and WcMake2.hp. Some people |
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| 46 | had problems with CFLAGS for the silly HP cc... |
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| 47 | |
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| 48 | VMS Better!! Try the new VMSWcl.com. Several changes |
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| 49 | in libWc to deal with VMS file naming. Thanks to |
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| 50 | Peter Scott. |
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| 51 | |
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| 52 | OSF1 Pretty simple really - trivial changes to |
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| 53 | Wc/WcSetValues.c, and a few things in the |
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| 54 | Imakefile and Wc.tmpl. Use imake. Thanks to |
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| 55 | danial@macsch.com (Danial Beck). |
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| 56 | |
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| 57 | Bug Fixes |
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| 58 | --------- |
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| 59 | |
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| 60 | COPY -> COPY.h The include files with the copyright notices |
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| 61 | has been renamed to match normal include file |
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| 62 | naming conventions. For VMS, among others. |
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| 63 | |
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| 64 | Xmp/Table Some geometry problems when used with XmForm |
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| 65 | have been fixed. |
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| 66 | |
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| 67 | XmpPopupACT Now avoids possible problems, and reports |
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| 68 | specifically what the problems are if any. |
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| 69 | For example, popups need to be posted using |
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| 70 | button events, and menu panes must be XmRowCol's |
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| 71 | with appropriate attributes. |
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| 72 | |
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| 73 | _____________________________________________________________________ |
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| 74 | | David E. Smyth David.E.Smyth@jpl.nasa.gov |_ |
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| 75 | |_____________________________________________________________________| | |
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| 76 | | Project: Mars Pathfinder -- Low Cost Lander with "Rocky IV" Rover | | |
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| 77 | | Team: Flight Software -- Object-Oriented Software for Mars | | |
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| 78 | |_____________________________________________________________________| | |
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| 79 | | Voice: (818) 393-7944 | | |
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| 80 | | FAX: (818) 393-0530 | | |
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| 81 | | Office: Space Flight Operations Facility 230/207a | | |
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| 82 | | Snail: JPL, MS 230-200, 4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena, CA 91109 | | |
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| 83 | |_____________________________________________________________________| | |
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| 84 | |_____________________________________________________________________| |
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