Re: Corrupted overlapping pull-down menus

[Matthew Johnson]

--- Timur Tabi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Matthew Johnson wrote:
> 
> > In fact, it is a oftne a really good idea to run
> > "cygcheck -svr > cygchout" and attach the file
> > 'cygchout' to email to this list, since many
> people
> > can spot the problem right away from that output.
> 
> $ cygcheck -svr > cygchout
> cygcheck: dump_sysinfo: GetVolumeInformation()
> failed: 1
> 
> I don't know if that error message means anything. 

It can't be good, but we will have to wait for someone
more knowledgeable to comment on it.

I am more concerned about:

> Here are the 
> contents of cygchout:
> 
> 
> Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics
> Current System Time: Mon Mar 14 09:44:48 2005
> 
> Windows XP Professional Ver 5.1 Build 2600 Service
> Pack 1

Why are you still on SP1?

But I am even more concerned about:

[snip]

> XFree86-base4.3.0-11
> XFree86-bin 4.3.0-21
> XFree86-bin-icons   4.3.0-7
> XFree86-doc 4.3.0-2
> XFree86-etc 4.3.0-12
> XFree86-f1004.3.0-2
> XFree86-fcyr4.3.0-2
> XFree86-fenc4.3.0-2
> XFree86-fnts4.3.0-2
> XFree86-fscl4.3.0-2
> XFree86-fsrv4.3.0-9
> XFree86-html4.3.0-10
> XFree86-jdoc4.3.0-2
> XFree86-lib 4.3.0-3
> XFree86-lib-compat  4.3.0-2
> XFree86-man 4.3.0-10
> XFree86-nest4.3.0-8
> XFree86-prog4.3.0-21
> XFree86-prt 4.3.0-6
> XFree86-ps  4.3.0-2
> XFree86-startup-scripts 4.3.0-1
> XFree86-vfb 4.3.0-8
> XFree86-xserv   4.3.0-68
> XFree86-xwinclip4.3.0-3

Now I know the name of this list has 'xfree' in it,
but the XFree packages were recently pulled from the
list of packages supported by setup.exe, and indeed,
on the one of the three systems where I have installed
Cygwin/X where things work well, I have only ONE
'XFree86' package: it is 'XFree-86lib-compat'.

All my other X packages start with the prefix
'xorg-x11' And I see you have all these too.

In fact, if you launch the current version of
setup.exe, you will see that 'XFree-86lib-compat' is
the only one that is currently being installed: all
the others are listed with 'ZZZRemovedPackages'.

So I would recommend removing all the other XFree
packages. But again, you might want to wait until
someone more knowledgeable chips in. For it is far
from clear (to me) that removing these will solve your
problem.

[snip]


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Re: Corrupted overlapping pull-down menus

[Matthew Johnson]

--- Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Mar 2005, Matthew Johnson wrote:
> 
> > [snip]
I don't know exactly what version of Cygwin
 I'm using (how can I tell?),

> > You can tell by opening a Cygwin shell and typing,
> "cygcheck --version".
> 
> No.  The output of "cygcheck --version" has *very
> little correlation* with
> the installed version of Cygwin.

Thanks for the correction. Spurred by your rejoinder,
I re-read the description and find that "very little"
is even an understatement.

> The way to find
> out the version of
> Cygwin you're using is the same as that of finding
> out the version of
> Linux (or any other Unix) that's being used: "uname
> -r"

According to the man page for 'uname', the '-r' option
gives the release number of the kernel only. Is this
really identical with the version number of Cygwin?

> The installed
> version of Cygwin (and other packages) is also part
> of the output of
> "cygcheck -svr".

Now this output refers to "Cygwin version DLL info".
Are you really referring to the same thing as "Cygwin
version DLL info" in one place, but as "kernel
release" in another? The Reporting Guidelines use the
bare term 'cygwin release', which sounds like a
release for the entire cygwin installation, not just
the DLL.

Under such circumstances, it is not surprising that
people read the reporting guidelines, but still do not
include the 'cygwin release'.

BTW: I am currently working on a software project
where the release number is one thing, and the version
another, and they two have no correlation.

> > In fact, it is a oftne a really good idea to run
> "cygcheck -svr >
> > cygchout" and attach the file 'cygchout' to email
> to this list, since
> > many people can spot the problem right away from
> that output.

[snip]

> OTOH, there are many guidelines for posting
> Cygwin-related questions to
> the lists, all of which are listed at
> .

Certainly. And including the output from 'cygcheck' is
one of the more frequently useful of the guidelines.
Perhaps that is why it is in bold.

OTOH, the so-called 'good examples' of subject lines
are not so convincing. What are those numbers '1.1.8'
supposed to mean?



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Re: Corrupted overlapping pull-down menus

[Timur Tabi]

Alexander Gottwald wrote:
Phew. Hard stuff. I cn't promise I'll have time to look into this. 
Have you asked the developers of the editor if they can give some
information on this?
No, but I can easily imagine what their response will be, and it won't 
be helpful.

You need a window manger (like twm, fvwm or wmaker) which is responsible 
for drawing window handles. 
I'm not sure how to go about this.  I installed cygwin with everything, 
but I doubt that counts because I'm actually running my app on a 
different machine, so I just set the DISPLAY variable to my local 
machine's IP address.  I guess I would need to have a window manager 
installed and running on the remote machine.  I think I can figure that 
one out.

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Re: Corrupted overlapping pull-down menus

[Alexander Gottwald]

On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, Timur Tabi wrote:

> Alexander Gottwald wrote:
> 
> > Does it happen in windowed mode too?
> 
> No, it doesn't. 

Phew. Hard stuff. I cn't promise I'll have time to look into this. 
Have you asked the developers of the editor if they can give some
information on this?

> Unfortunately, in this mode, my app doesn't have a 
> title bar or borders, so I can't move or resize the window.

You need a window manger (like twm, fvwm or wmaker) which is responsible 
for drawing window handles. 

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Re: Corrupted overlapping pull-down menus

[Igor Pechtchanski]

On Sat, 12 Mar 2005, Matthew Johnson wrote:

> [snip]
> > > I don't know exactly what version of Cygwin I'm using (how can I
> > > tell?),
>
> You can tell by opening a Cygwin shell and typing, "cygcheck --version".

No.  The output of "cygcheck --version" has *very little correlation* with
the installed version of Cygwin.  The way to find out the version of
Cygwin you're using is the same as that of finding out the version of
Linux (or any other Unix) that's being used: "uname -r".  The installed
version of Cygwin (and other packages) is also part of the output of
"cygcheck -svr".

> In fact, it is a oftne a really good idea to run "cygcheck -svr >
> cygchout" and attach the file 'cygchout' to email to this list, since
> many people can spot the problem right away from that output.

The output of "cygcheck -svr" provides information about the Cygwin
installation.  Sometimes there are configuration issues that result in
certain symptoms, and having that output available can help either confirm
or rule out those configuration issues as the cause of the poster's
symptoms.

OTOH, there are many guidelines for posting Cygwin-related questions to
the lists, all of which are listed at .
Igor
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Re: Corrupted overlapping pull-down menus

[Timur Tabi]

Alexander Gottwald wrote:
Does it happen in windowed mode too?
No, it doesn't.  Unfortunately, in this mode, my app doesn't have a 
title bar or borders, so I can't move or resize the window.

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Re: Corrupted overlapping pull-down menus

[Matthew Johnson]

[snip]
> > I don't know exactly what version of Cygwin I'm
> using (how can I tell?),

You can tell by opening a Cygwin shell and typing,
"cygcheck --version".

In fact, it is a oftne a really good idea to run
"cygcheck -svr > cygchout" and attach the file
'cygchout' to email to this list, since many people
can spot the problem right away from that output.

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Re: Corrupted overlapping pull-down menus

[Alexander Gottwald]

Timur Tabi wrote:

> When I click on an item in the menu bar, the menu displays fine.
> However, when I move the mouse over another menu item, it draws the new
> menu overlapping the previous one.  In other words, it doesn't
> completely erase the previous menu.
>
> I do know that Slickedit is not like most other X apps, in that it
> manually draws all the menus, rather than using some high-level
> functions of X.  I'm not an X programmer, so I'm not sure exactly what
> that means, but Slickedit is very portable, and so they've developed
> their own GUI library.
>
> I don't know exactly what version of Cygwin I'm using (how can I tell?),
> but I downloaded and installed it last week, so I guess it's the most
> recent.  I'm running it on Windows XP.

Does it happen in windowed mode too? (ommiting the -multiwindow option from
the XWin commandline)

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Corrupted overlapping pull-down menus

[Timur Tabi]

I'm seeing a problem with pull-down menus in one particular application: 
Visual Slickedit 8.0, running on Red Hat Linux 9.0.

When I click on an item in the menu bar, the menu displays fine. 
However, when I move the mouse over another menu item, it draws the new 
menu overlapping the previous one.  In other words, it doesn't 
completely erase the previous menu.

You can see a screen shot here: http://tabi.org/badmenu.gif
In this screen shot, the mouse used to be over the menu item "Project", 
but then I moved it over "Build".  The corrupted menu is a combination 
of the Project and Build pull-down menus.  For instance, the text 
"Execute Makefile Target" belongs to the Build menu.  But the text "Open 
Other Workspace" (the "Open" is hidden) belongs to the Project menu.

I do know that Slickedit is not like most other X apps, in that it 
manually draws all the menus, rather than using some high-level 
functions of X.  I'm not an X programmer, so I'm not sure exactly what 
that means, but Slickedit is very portable, and so they've developed 
their own GUI library.

I don't know exactly what version of Cygwin I'm using (how can I tell?), 
but I downloaded and installed it last week, so I guess it's the most 
recent.  I'm running it on Windows XP.

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