My memory served me incorrectly - the other program
had bombed with List.o - the difference was that the
list appeared before the bomb, while List_fix.o caused
the list to be invisible up to that point.
Given that revelation, it appears that the fix is relatively
innocuous and is in any case desirable.
----- Original Message -----
From: Jerry Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Jerry Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 2:58 PM
Subject: Re: Xm/List.c
> 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
> >
> >
>
