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From: fred@hpcvlx.HP.COM (Fred Taft)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: HP's Xtk Bug Fixes
Message-ID: <1610032@hpcvlx.HP.COM>
Date: 15 Aug 88 18:09:53 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
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Most people are aware that HP is working on a widget library,
one version of which will be put into the public domain.
This library will initially be R2 based.  Like others trying to
use the R2 intrinsics we have encountered significant problems
which we have needed to fix in order to proceed with our development.

The bugs, and usually a proposed fix, have been reported to MIT.  MIT
has blessed some of the fixes but has simply not had the time to
respond to all of the bugs.  My guess is that MIT has shifted its focus
to the upcoming (Oct) R3 tape release and that they are spending most 
of their cycles trying to get it right.

HP supports the Xt Intrinsics as an integral part of an X Windows
User Interface development tool.  In that spirit we are re-posting
the unresolved R2 Intrinsics bugs reported by HP as well as our fixes
to these bugs.  <<AGAIN, THESE ARE HP, NOT MIT FIXES>>

Also, within the next 2 weeks we will be donating our widget library
to MIT.  As part of that package we will make available the
R2 intrinsics with all patches (HP's and MIT's).

--Bob Miller