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From: garyo@prometheus.think.com (Gary Oberbrunner)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Questions
Message-ID: <GARYO.89Mar20191308@prometheus.think.com>
Date: 21 Mar 89 00:13:08 GMT
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I have two questions:

I am running X11R3 with no patches on a color Sun 4/110 OS 4.0 with uwm.

(1) The buttons in the athena Dialog widget are *unbelievably* slow.
Highlighting and de-highlighting are the most noticeably bad, but
refreshing is also a killer.  When I expose my 5 x-postit windows, for
instance, they take about 15 seconds to redraw (during which the server
response is nil).  Is this normal?

This does not happen on Sun-3s.

Here's a small code sample I snarfed off the net today that demonstrates
the same behavior.
The buttons take ages to refresh and forever to highlight.
Button-press highlighting in the buttons seems to be quick, however.

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#include <X11/Intrinsic.h>
#include <X11/StringDefs.h>
#include <X11/Dialog.h>

void
main(argc,argv)
char ** argv;
int argc;
{
    Widget top, dia;
    Arg a[1];

    XtSetArg (a[0], XtNvalue, "foo bar baz");
    top = XtInitialize ("", "test", (XrmOptionDescRec *)NULL, 0, &argc, argv);

    dia = XtCreateManagedWidget ("dialog", dialogWidgetClass, top,
        (ArgList) a, (Cardinal) 1);

    XtDialogAddButton(dia, "foo", NULL, NULL);
    XtDialogAddButton(dia, "bar", NULL, NULL);
    XtRealizeWidget(top);
    XtMainLoop();
}
------------------------------------------------------------

When I enter a button, first the top highlight border is drawn, then the
right, then the bottom, then the left border.  The whole process takes
about two seconds.

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(2) Twm on my second (color) screen doesn't pass keyboard events to
clients.  It gets the keyboard events (I put in printfs), and it sets the
focus to the selected window, but the key events still go to twm!
Any ideas?  Tests I should try?
--
					As always,

					Gary

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