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From: ron@kasparov.osf.org (Ron Birnbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: XmFileSelectionBox is buggy
Keywords: XmFileSelectionBox, bug, Motif
Message-ID: <11661@paperboy.OSF.ORG>
Date: 3 Aug 90 21:07:12 GMT
References: <1202@esacs.UUCP>
Sender: news@OSF.ORG
Reply-To: ron@kasparov.osf.org (Ron Birnbaum)
Organization: Open Software Foundation
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In article <1202@esacs.UUCP> pizzi@esacs.UUCP (Riccardo Pizzi) writes:
>I decided to write a simple test program for the FileSelectionBox widget
>and discovered some nasty and (let me say it) stupid bugs.
>They pertains to the DoSearch() routines and will very likely cause
>random core dumps. BTW, that's Motif 1.0a, no 1.1 yet... :-(
>I don't know if these bugs are already in some official bugs list, so I
>will post them anyway.



...


 
>That's all... this is the result of my first experience with this widget
>(I never used it before), but it is clear to me that this part of the Motif
>code has *never* been tested by the dev team :-(
 



Well, I think you'll like the File Selection Box much better in Motif 1.1. It
has been completely re-written and it works much better!





Ron Birnbaum        
OSF Systems Engineering
ron@osf.org