[M3devel] need help with cm3 problem before I deliver software this week
Olaf Wagner
wagner at elegosoft.com
Thu Jul 31 18:44:49 CEST 2008
Quoting Randy Coleburn <rcoleburn at scires.com>:
> Rodney:
>
> I am using Windows XP Professional, Service Pack 2 (on some systems,
> Service Pack 3 is applied).
Hi Randy,
I just tried formsedit on exactly this system (XP professional, SP2)
in my virtual machine, and wasn't able to see any fault wrt. cursor
processing and typing, too. I checked-out and compiled all the latest
sources of the relevant gui packages (ui, vbtkit, formsvbt etc.), but
that didn't make any difference (though some changes had been applied).
For me it just seems to work correctly. It may be of interest though
that some months ago when I was last working on this system for the
regression tests, I applied all existing Microsoft patches; but you've
done that probably, too.
I've got no idea about the pixmap problem, too.
As long as nobody else is able to reproduce the problem it will
remain difficult to analyze this problem.
Sorry that I cannot be of more help,
Olaf
PS: Are you sure that you are really using exactly the current CM3 gui
libraries, and not some adapted or modified stuff from an older
release?
> 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#.
>> >
>> > I also have one other strange anomaly, but it is less of an issue
> at
>> > the moment. On a Dell M4300 laptop at 1920x1200 resolution, all
>
>> > pixmaps are getting stretched vertically. Text seems to be fine
> as
>> > do HBox, Rim, Frame, etc., but pixmaps get vertically stretched
> out
>> > of proportion. This problem has not happened on all other
> platforms
>> > I've tested, (e.g. Lenovo T60 at 1024x768 and 2048x1024, IBM G40
> at
>> > 1400x1050, etc.). Any ideas on what could be the issue? I know
>
>> > that 1920x1200 is a strange resolution, but it is the native
>> > resolution for the M4300 laptop computer that the customer is
> using.
>> > I checked and the computer is set for 96dpi (normal). Perhaps
>
>> > there is some Trestle setting that I need to tweak on this
> platform,
>> > or perhaps there is a bug that needs fixing.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Randy Coleburn
>> > Senior Systems Engineer
>> > Scientific Research Corporation
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Olaf Wagner -- elego Software Solutions GmbH
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> Germany
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>>
>
> --
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> Rodney M. Bates, retired assistant professor
> Dept. of Computer Science, Wichita State University
> Wichita, KS 67260-0083
> 316-978-3922
> rodney.bates at wichita.edu
>
>
--
Olaf Wagner -- elego Software Solutions GmbH
Gustav-Meyer-Allee 25 / Gebäude 12, 13355 Berlin, Germany
phone: +49 30 23 45 86 96 mobile: +49 177 2345 869 fax: +49 30 23 45 86 95
http://www.elegosoft.com | Geschäftsführer: Olaf Wagner | Sitz: Berlin
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