Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!rochester!ken
From: ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: xfig popup-menu
Message-ID: <1989Oct24.170259.17034@cs.rochester.edu>
Date: 24 Oct 89 17:02:59 GMT
References: <1925@cs-spool.calgary.UUCP> <1112@pcsbst.UUCP>
Reply-To: ken@cs.rochester.edu
Organization: University of Rochester Computer Science Department
Lines: 18
Keywords: xfig, popup
Address: Rochester, NY 14627, (716) 275-1448

In article <1112@pcsbst.UUCP>:
|lewis@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (John Lewis) writes:
|>I am trying to use the "xfig" drawing package; it dumps on me.  "xfig" is
|>contributed, so ... now that I have it compiled ... I'm not sure what to
|>expect.  If others have been able to get it going, I'd love to here how.
|
|We had a similiar problem and we traced it to the set_pos() function in
|canvas.c . The typedef for the x,y fields should be "int" and not short
|which is what Position is defined as.
|
|		Chip Fraser
|		PCS 
|		Munich Germany

This was fixed in a patch posted to comp.sources.x quite a while ago.
I know many people can't ftp or reach an archive.  I'm sure the R4
release will have fixed sources. And no, I'm not doing anything more
with it these days.