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From: jdp@polstra.UUCP (John Polstra)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Is "ShapeStyle:roundedRectangle" Broken?
Message-ID: <3782@polstra.UUCP>
Date: 25 May 90 17:39:48 GMT
Reply-To: jdp@polstra.UUCP (John Polstra)
Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle
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Has anybody else noticed that Athena Command widgets with the
"roundedRectangle" shape style look awful?  Try this, for instance:

    xman -xrm 'xman*topBox*shapeStyle:roundedRectangle'

The NW corner of each button looks about right (nice and round), but the
SE corner is almost square.  The other two corners are in-between, and
both are pretty ratty looking.

Oval and elliptical buttons look fine, as do (of course) rectangular ones.

I am running X11R4 + fixes 1-9 on a Sun 3/180 under SunOs 4.0.1.

The only unusual thing I did in my config file was to specify that the
Sun floating point accelerator be used:

    #define DefaultCCOptions -ffpa -pipe

Since arcs are involved in drawing rounded buttons, and arcs use
floating point, I realize that the problem could be related to the use
of the FPA.

I'd appreciate hearing from other people as to whether they have seen
this problem on their own configurations.
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