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From: eli@haddock.ima.isc.com (Elias Israel)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Patch for xrooms
Message-ID: <15683@haddock.ima.isc.com>
Date: 18 Jan 90 03:52:45 GMT
Reply-To: eli@haddock.ima.isc.com (Elias Israel)
Organization: Interactive Systems, Cambridge, MA 02138-5302
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Recently, the DEC Western Software Labs posted an implementation of
Rooms for X called xrooms. We were hacking around with it locally
and found some minor bugs.

First, pattern match register weren't being expanded into strings other
than 'use' statements. Second, special characters weren't properly
quoted when written out to .xroomsrc files.

I have send the patches back to the folks at WSL. If people are
interested in having the patches on a *very* unofficial basis, I may be
persuaded to mail them out or post them to the net.

Something else worth mentioning (because new users may find it
counter-intuitive) is the way that the xrooms buttonbox works. The
button box is a window like any other. That means that if you move it
while in one room, it will return to its old location when in other
rooms.  In order to set the location of the buttonbox for all rooms,
use the 'set in all rooms' option on the buttonbox menu suboption
'change states..' after you've moved it to the place that you want it
to live.

If that last paragraph doesn't make sense to you and you are seeing
behaviour that you don't understand, send me some email and I'll try
the explanation again.

(For real hackery, try using the ChooseAppName stuff to set private
window manager properties!  It's fun and fashionable :-)

Elias Israel		   | "Justice, n. A commodity which in more or
Interactive Systems Corp.  | less adulterated condition the State sells
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