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From: henglein@paul.rutgers.edu (Fritz Henglein)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: xfig
Keywords: no popup menus
Message-ID: <Nov.8.14.57.54.1988.3295@paul.rutgers.edu>
Date: 8 Nov 88 19:57:55 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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I have just received X11R3, and I have tried to install one of the two
figure drawing programs, xfig and xpic, included in part 1 of the user
contributed software, unfortunately unsuccessfully in both cases.

More specifically, xfig contains the line

                extern XrmDatabase XtDefaultDB;

in main.c; I couldn't find such a thing as an XtDefaultDB anywhere in
the whole distribution, though.  After nulling XtDefaultDB, xfig
started up and drew some nice figures, but pressing the right mouse
button in the canvas area, which is supposed to make a menu pop up
with all sorts of essential options, would invariably cause a segmentation
error.  The rather suspicious definition of the routine
set_popupmenu in the file popup.c is

set_popupmenu(event)
	INPUTEVENT	*event;
{
}

If somebody knows what the definition of this procedure really ought to
be and if somebody could tell me, more generally, how to get xfig
to work on a Sun3/SunOS3.5 system, I'd be most thankful.

Please forgive my general ignorance about the internals of the
X windows system (I program in SETL).  Also, since I don't
read comp.windows.x regularly, I would appreciate a direct email response
very much.

Thank you very much in advance,
Fritz Henglein
(henglein@{nyu.edu, acf2.nyu.edu, paul.rutgers.edu})