Re: X and Self 2.0.1

[randy@rocious.Eng.Sun.COM (Randy Smith)]

Richard --

Dumped you code into my self promt, and indeed: no window.  But when I said 
'mooch display flush,' there she was!  An annoying property of the display,
this need for occasional flushing. Hope that does it for you.

Thanks for the comment on the ':0.0' socket convention!

	--Randy

> From urs@otis.Stanford.EDU Wed May  5 15:48:59 1993
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> Date: Wed, 5 May 93 18:41:04 EDT
> From: richards@turing.scs.carleton.ca (Michael Richardson)
> To: self-interest@self.stanford.edu
> Subject: X and Self 2.0.1
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> Resent-From: Urs Hoelzle <urs@otis.Stanford.EDU>
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>   I thought I'd take a look at the X routines that are in the
> 2.0.1 release of Self so I would understand James Noble's stuff (when
> I get to see it) a bit better.
>   I finally sat down at a console and did 'ui start' to see what
> happens. It definitely works... (Normally it is NCSA Telnet, 
> X under Mach386, or DecWindows for me)
>   It seems that one should be able to write some simple code to at
> least *open* a window. Alas, it never gets mapped. Can anyone shed any
> light on this? Is anyone else doing mainstream work on the Self X-interface.
>   Here is the code that I put together by looking at uiX.self:
> 
> lobby _AddSlotsIfAbsent: (| mooch = () |)
> mooch _Define: (| 
>     parent* = traits oddball.
>     display.
>     window.
>     displayName <- unix environmentVariable: 'DISPLAY'.
>     start = ( 
> 	display: xlib display open: displayName.
> 	window: xlib window createOnDisplay: display At: 5@26 Size: 500@@500.
> 	window name: 'Test #1'.
> 	window iconified: false Input: true.
> 	window map.
> 	inspect: display.
> 	inspect: window.
>     ).
> |)
> 
>   BTW: with regard to comment of using ':0.0' versus 'hostname:0.0':
>     I would assume that XOpenDisplay considers :0.0 to mean unix:0.0, 
> which usually means to open an AF_UNIX domain socket rather than an
> AF_INET (tcp) socket. This is usually in /tmp/.X11_unix/X? 
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