On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 09:05:54AM -0400, Terry Gliedt wrote:
> This goes back to a thread that is several months old where a fix was
> generated for the fvwm window manager to fix a slow popup dialog box in
> Perl/Tk apps. The fix was based on a similar problem discovered in
> Tcl/Tk (I don't know any of the details). I'd appreciate hearing
> directly from anyone who can shed some light on this. I'll post this to
> other groups too. TIA
>
>
> Has anyone else seen this?
>
>
> I have good circumstantial evidence that this change to fvwm2 causes
> some sort of problem with at least one Tcl/Tk app. This could be a
> problem in the application, Tcl/Tk, an incorrect fix for fvwm or even
> mean that Perl/Tk needs a change for the original problem.
>
> The application 'tkcvs' is a Tcl/Tk GUI interface for CVS. Most times,
> but not always, when one selects a file and then selects the Commit
> button, a window opens for the reason to be entered and then abruptly
> closes. CVS commit is not done. I've been using the same version of
> tkcvs for many months and this symptom just began showing up after we
> converted to Solaris 5.7.
>
> I have other TkCVS apps (like TKDIFF in the same package) that do not
> show this problem.
>
> It is very difficult for me to debug TCL apps, but it appears the
> problem occurs in a call to TKWAIT after the commit prompt window is
> created.
>
> Upgrading to the latest version of tkcvs makes no difference.
>
> The problem seems very consistent on both Linux and Solaris systems.
>
> Upgrading to fvwm 2.4 (where the fix has been applied) makes no
> difference.
>
> Removing the fix in fvwm (events.c) FIXES the TkCVS problem.
Could you by any chance tell us *which* fix you are talking about?
Bye
Dominik ^_^ ^_^
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Received on Tue Jul 24 2001 - 09:30:35 BST