[M3devel] need help with cm3 problem before I deliver software this week

Daniel Alejandro Benavides D. dabenavidesd at yahoo.es
Fri Aug 1 01:16:05 CEST 2008


Hi all:
They are @M3TraceWinMsgs and @M3SlowTrace
I get it in the file m3-ui/ui/src/winvbt/WinTrestle.m3
lines 1096, 1097
  trace_msgs := RTParams.IsPresent ("TraceWinMsgs");
  slow_trace := RTParams.IsPresent ("SlowTrace");
Thanks


--- El jue, 31/7/08, Daniel Alejandro Benavides D. <dabenavidesd at yahoo.es> escribió:
De: Daniel Alejandro Benavides D. <dabenavidesd at yahoo.es>
Asunto: Re: [M3devel] need help with cm3 problem before I deliver software this week
Para: "Rodney M. Bates" <rodney.bates at wichita.edu>, "Randy Coleburn" <rcoleburn at scires.com>
CC: m3devel at elegosoft.com
Fecha: jueves, 31 julio, 2008 5:43

Hi all:
I think I remember somewhere there are runtime parameters for debugging Trestle
on windows implementation. Check the source code of it; I can't find them in
this moment.
Thanks

--- El jue, 31/7/08, Randy Coleburn <rcoleburn at scires.com> escribió:
De: Randy Coleburn <rcoleburn at scires.com>
Asunto: Re: [M3devel] need help with cm3 problem before I deliver software this
week
Para: "Rodney M. Bates" <rodney.bates at wichita.edu>
CC: m3devel at elegosoft.com
Fecha: jueves, 31 julio, 2008 10:51


 
Rodney:
 
I am using Windows XP Professional, Service Pack 2 (on some systems, Service
Pack 3 is applied).
 
Michel Dagenais suggested that if the problem does not reproduce on Linux, that
it might have to do with how Windows reports character events.  He thought a
Filter VBT may exist somewhere that would aid in debugging by printing method
calls before propagating them to father/son.  This filter VBT would be inserted
at different places in the VBT tree to get tracing information.  Are you
familiar with something like this?
 
As for the pixmaps, Michel suggests increasing the resolution of the original
pixmap to help alleviate problems with upscaling.  I may try this, but of
course, FormsVBT uses a lot of pixmap resources, for example, radio, boolean,
checkmark, numeric, etc all use pixmaps.
 
Regards,
Randy

>>> "Rodney M. Bates" <rodney.bates at wichita.edu>
7/31/2008 9:33 AM >>>
Which variant of the M3 Windows target are you using?  I don't have any
of them built right now.

Randy Coleburn wrote:
> Hi Olaf, Daniel, Rodney, et al:
>  
> Thanks for your responses so far.  Sorry for the delay in replying, but 
> our email server has been offline for nearly 24-hours.  There were some 
> severe electrical storms that took down both redundant power systems for 
> our email system.  Hope I have not missed any of your replies.
>  
> Right now, I am delivering the software on Windows XP using SP2 or 
> greater.  I have not tried to see if this problem also occurs on Unix.  
> I don't have ready access to a unix system from my current location.
>  
> So it is perhaps a Windows-only problem with Trestle/FormsVBT.  In any 
> event, it is a real problem for me.
>  
> As for the pixmap stretching problem, I have tested various resolutions 
> on the customer's computer.  Unfortunately, the customer demands that

> the display resolution stay at the 1920x1200.
> 1920x1200=pixmap stretch problem
> 1680x1050=pixmap stretch problem
> 1440x900=no problem
> 1024x768=no problem
>  
> Regards,
> Randy
> 
>  >>> Olaf Wagner <wagner at elegosoft.com> 7/30/2008 2:24 AM
>>>
> Quoting Randy Coleburn <rcoleburn at scires.com>:
> 
>  > Hi:
>  >
>  > I've been using cm3 to develop software I am delivering this
week to 
>  >  a customer.  During the acceptance testing, we've run into a

>  > problem  that I have not been able to solve.  I am hoping someone
in 
>  > the cm3  community can help.  I need to solve this problem ASAP
this 
>  > week.
>  >
>  > This problem is easily reproduced using the "formsedit"
program.
>  >
>  > The problem is with the TypeIn and TypeScript FormsVBT elements
used 
>  >  in my program.  Since formsedit uses these, you can easily 
>  > reproduce  the problem.
>  >
>  > Click with the mouse to move the insertion point somewhere in the 

>  > text.  Observe that the cursor moves to that point.  Now, use
the  
>  > left arrow key to move the insertion point a few characters to
the  
>  > left.  Then, type a few characters.  Observe that the first  
>  > character you type shows up at the place where you initially
moved  
>  > the cursor with the mouse, while the remaining characters show up
at 
>  >  the place where you moved the cursor via the left-arrow key. 
This  
>  > behavior is wrong.  The first character you type should be at
the  
>  > current insertion point, not at the one from the mouse move.
> 
> Randy,
> 
> I just rebuilt the CM3 GUI libraries and formsedit, but I wasn't able
> to reproduce the problem on FreeBSD 6.3.
> 
> Does the problem show up on all platforms you are working on?
> Which are these?
> 
> Are there any local modifications to the libraries which I may not
> have?
> 
> If it occurs only on Unix, it may be possible that a weird window
> manager interferes with the event delivery; otherwise I've got no
> good idea. If on Unix, you/we could perhaps test the behaviour
> on a different (remote) X display?
> 
> Please provide more data about the problem context and how to
> reproduce it.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Olaf
> 
>  > I'm sure the fix is easy, but I haven't been able to locate
it yet.  
>  >  It probably has to do with the internal idea of the insertion
point 
>  >  not getting updated properly.  Note that the cursor on the
screen 
>  > is  in the right spot, it's just that the first character gets

>  > inserted  into the TypeIn or TypeScript in the wrong place (i.e.,
it 
>  > is put at  the place from the mouse move, not from the last arrow 
>  > key move).
>  >
>  > Any assistance you can provide is very much appreciated and will
go  
>  > a long way toward keeping Modula-3 use alive and well for this  
>  > project.  If we can't fix this one, the customers will want
to  
>  > re-code everything in some Microsoft language, probably C++ or C#


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