There may be more to this than meets the eye.
While the fix did correct the behavior in one
program, in another it led (either causatively
or incidentally) to a bomb where none had
occurred when linked with the original List.o.
----- Original Message -----
From: Jerry Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 2:40 PM
Subject: Xm/List.c
> After finding limitations in the ability of xfree86 to
> handle our software correctly, I ran it under HWM
> and was able to prevent it from crashing that way,
> showing that the problem thought to be due to lesstif
> was not, after all.
>
> However, my GUI's that contain scrolled selection
> lists of several thousand items were taking forever
> to initialize and resulted in an annoying flashing behavior.
>
> To correct this, I removed the calls to _XmListInitScrollBars()
> and _XmListRedraw() from XmListAddItem(), _XmListAddItem(),
> and _XmListAddItems(). (This is not a complete fix, as I do not
> use XmListAddItems() and thus did not modify that, if needed.)
>
> The following output from "diff List_fix.c List.c" shows the
> corrective changes, limited by my own needs as described above:
>
> 1870d1869
> < /*
> 1872d1870
> < */
> 1890d1887
> < /*
> 1892d1888
> < */
> 4946d4941
> < /*
> 4948d4942
> < */
> 5713,5717d5706
> < if (!mode)
> < {
> < _XmListInitScrollBars(w, True, True);
> < _XmListRedraw(w, False);
> < }
>
> Jerry Miller
>
>
