Tom,

We're seeing some problems with MGED that look like they have been
introduced by the vls changes - what are you seeing when you run MGED?

Cliff

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Tom Browder <[email protected]> wrote:
> Keith, I made some string handling changes, but I'm not sure from your
> code what you expect the "%*s" format specifier to do.  Original code:
>
>           bu_vls_printf(&top_vls, "%*s", cp - bu_vls_addr(&dmp->dm_pathName),
>                             bu_vls_addr(&dmp->dm_pathName));
>
> Changed code:
>
>          bu_vls_strncpy(&top_vls, (const char
> *)bu_vls_addr(&dmp->dm_pathName),
>                                cp - bu_vls_addr(&dmp->dm_pathName));
>
> The '*' (by my reading of 'man fprintf') says that the first argument
> should be an int that assigns the minimum field width for the incoming
> string.  If the string is longer, the field will be expanded to fit
> the string.  If the string is longer, the field will be padded on the
> right with sufficient spaces to fill the field.
>
> Is that what you expect?  If that is so, can you show the problem you
> are seeing (and I will make it a test case and fix it if necessary)?
> (For instance, you may need to cast the first argument to an int.)
>
> Best regards,
>
> -Tom
>
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