Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ncar!ames!lll-winken!sun-barr!newstop!sun!kimba!hvr From: hvr@kimba.Sun.COM (Heather Rose) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: XView Conversion Problem Message-ID: <132263@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Date: 27 Feb 90 02:33:48 GMT References: Sender: news@sun.Eng.Sun.COM Reply-To: hvr@sun.UUCP (Heather Rose) Distribution: comp Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View Lines: 23 In article hogan@trollope.csl.sri.com (Emmett Hogan) writes: > >SetUp: Sun 3/80, SunOS 4.0.3, X11R4 (compiled with cc) > >The problem occurs when the window is iconified and the program >attempts to change the icon (This program monitors several log files >and changes the icon when an entry is made in one of the logs); the >icon does not change and cannot be de-iconified by simply clicking on >the icon, I must choose the (de)-iconify entry in my TWM menu and >click on the icon. The window will then pop up, which the latest >entry appearing in the monitored log file, but the icon also remains >on the screen. When I re-iconify the window, it goes back to the >previously frozen icon, but I can now open the window again by >clicking on the icon (until of course, the program tries to change it >again). I have found this behavior in other programs (i.e. contool) >that I have tried to convert to XView, that try to change the icon. I believe this is a twm limitation pointed out by someone else on this alias. There's even a fix for it I believe... Regards, Heather