Tom,
You're welcome.
1) I've usually skip the "startupui" and have just used dx -edit, dx -startup, 
dx -tutor directly.  I think if you specify -directory 
/usr/local/dx/samples/programs as well, these will come up using that 
directory.  You may be able to set X resources to have the same effect.  I am 
not the authority on these issues, perhaps
someone who is can respond.
2) isn't right... not that I'm disputing your observation.  It may be a font 
(or font color=background) issue.  I seem to recall something of this sort 
happening before on linux.  It may have been lesstif-version related?  Perhaps 
you could search the mail list archives for this problem (if you already have, 
my apologies).
Pete

"Tom G. Smith" wrote:

> Hey Pete,
>
> Thanks for the quick and helpful response.  I first tried
> ./configure --without-javadx;make, but it still tried to do javac,
> so I chose the next easiest method, and edited java out of the
> SUBDIRS in Makefile.  That worked, but now I have two more questions:
>
> 1:      When you invoke dx and click on the Samples button, by default
>         it looks for samples in whatever the current directory was
>         when you invoked it.  You can see the samples (which look
>         very interesting) that were installed by changing the Filter
>         field to read -
>
>                 /usr/local/dx/samples/programs/*.net
>
>         Is there a way to change the default, so I don't have to tell
>         everybody to manually change it to see the samples?
>
> 2:      I can't get the tutorial to work.  When I click on the Run Tutorial
>         button, I get an empty window with File on the menu bar,
>         with one option, Quit.
>
> Peter Daniel Kirchner wrote:
> Forwarded message:
> > From [EMAIL PROTECTED]  Thu May  4 18:10:40 2000
> > Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 18:42:09 -0400
> > From: "Peter Daniel Kirchner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: [opendx-dev] CLASSPATH and dxsamples
> > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > Hi Tom,
> >
> > Actually, we don't yet support kaffe for building javadx.  We took
> > the javac -verbose route to automatically configuring the dx build
> > which at the time precluded kaffe.  The dx configure leaves information
> > for the dxsamples configure.  I bet we have not handled this correctly
> > since this has changed in "dx" and we have not
> > re-rolled a dxsamples tarball. Ouch.
> >
> > Workaround #0: go to the dxsamples Makefile and remove java from the
> > SUBDIRS.  The remaining might not work because of my oversight explained
> > in the first paragraph:
> > Workaround #1 : skip javadx, for dx, configure --without-javadx
> > Workaround #2: install jdk 1.1.8, I think there is an RPM for same,
> > my favorite though is the IBM jdk, it may want IBM_LINUX set and
> > JAVA_ARCH set to linux (vs. genunix ).
> >
> > If you want to try to make dx build with kaffe, start by setting
> > CLASSPATH (KLASSPATH?) to /usr/share/kaffe/Klasses.jar  prior to dx
> > configure, and take it from there.
> >
> > I'll investigate the dx/dxsamples build coordination and try to
> > get a fix in soon.  Thanks for the append.
> >
> > Pete
> >
> > "Tom G. Smith" wrote:
> >
> > > Just got back from vde2000, and liked OpenDX well enough to try
> > > installing it, which I've done, partly successfully, on a
> > > RedHat 6.1 system.  I can get the dx command to run, and I
> > > get the GUI window, but no samples.  So I tried the commands below
> > > and get the errors shown.  Numerous guesses in changing CLASSPATH
> > > hasn't helped.
> > >
> > >         tar xzf dxsamples-4.0.8.tar.gz
> > >         chown -R root:root dxsamples-4.0.8
> > >         chmod 755 dxsamples-4.0.8
> > >         cd dxsamples-4.0.8
> > >         find . -perm +2000 -exec chmod -s {} \;
> > >         ./configure
> > >         make # Gets errors, so to isolate -
> > >         cd java/samples
> > >
> > > [dxsamples-4.0.8/java/samples]# make
> > > javac AutoInsurance.java CCNet2.java GroceryList.java HomeOwn.java 
> > > MRI_2.java MutualFund.java  ScatterData.java Streamline.java Topo.java 
> > > ddi.java gordon.java hedge.java ibmqw.java npvcall.java optval.java 
> > > wacc.java
> > >
> > > Could not initialize Kaffe.
> > > It's likely that your CLASSPATH settings are wrong.  Please make sure
> > > your CLASSPATH does not include any java.lang.* classes from other JVM
> > > vendors, such as Sun's classes.zip, BEFORE Kaffe's Klasses.jar.
> > > It is okay to have classes.zip AFTER Klasses.jar
> > >
> > > The current effective classpath is 
> > > `/opt/netscape/java/classes/java40.jar:/usr/local/jdk117_v1a/lib/classes.zip:/usr/local/dx/java/htmlpages/dx.jar:.:/usr/share/kaffe/Klasses.jar:/usr/share/kaffe/comm.jar:/usr/share/kaffe/pjava.jar:/usr/share/kaffe/servlet.jar:/usr/share/kaffe/pizza.jar'
> > > make: *** [samples.jar] Error 255
>
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