Path: utzoo!utgpu!bnr-vpa!bnr-di!leibniz!tpc
From: tpc@leibniz.UUCP (Tom Chmara)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: xfig -- problem entering text
Keywords: text xfig bug
Message-ID: <132@leibniz.UUCP>
Date: 26 Aug 88 13:40:39 GMT
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, CANADA
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xfig, distributed in comp.sources.x, looks wonderful, and seems quite
easy to use right-out-of-the-box.  Best of all, the price is right :-).
I don't want to gripe, but at the same time don't want to hunt this
down if someone else has fixed it...

Text can only be drawn at the beginning of a session.  Retrieval
of saved files, saving files, or entering image will stop xfig from
accepting text.  By this, I mean that the "T" button is reverse-video,
the "text input from keyboard" string appears in the dialog box,
but nothing typed at the keyboard appears on the screen (nor on
saved images).

I'm running SunOS4.0 on a Sun 3/60, for what it's worth.  I compiled
with -f68881 in addition to the options specified in the distributed
makefile.

	Thanks...
		---tpc---