Hi,
after solving my problem with the library (thanks again Tim!) I want to
see if someone has seen this problem and if there is a solution.
The problem is that sometime the dashed lines would disappear from the
display; as if their width were zero. The strange things is that if I
select it they will appears perfectly. This happen only if the zoom is
not so high and only on my high-resolution display (1600x900 in a
laptop, never seen in the lower one).
In the following screenshot, there are two identical squares in the
drawing --- one selected and one not.
problem at low zoom: http://imgur.com/yFUWyzE
no problem at higher zoom: http://imgur.com/jHfHrWg
This is version 3.7.48 which came precompiled in Ubuntu 13.10.
Before reporting this bug, I tried to compile a recent version to see if
it was fixed. I report my attempts here, I hope they can help someone
and/or help adjusting the documentation.
So, firstly I tried to compile the git 3.8 version. I discovered I need
to install the following packages for Ubuntu:
sudo apt-get install build-essential libx11-dev libxt-dev automake
libtcl-dev tk-dev libxaw7-dev
(maybe it would be nice to know if I have installed more or the correct
one --- it would be a useful addition to the compilation instructions).
After ./configure, the first shot at make failed: it seems that it was
searching for aclocal-1.11 and automake-1.11 explicitly, when I have
version 1.13. Ok, I symlinked 1.13 to 1.11 and it went on.
But then the compilation failed with:
elements.o: In function `splinebutton':
/home/romano/tmp/xcircuit-3.8/elements.c:1114: undefined reference
to `XtAddEventHandler'
...and a millions more. Ok, I gave up. I downloaded the tarball for
3.8.57 and now I could compile.
Unfortunately, when checking with
export XCIRCUIT_LIB_DIR=./lib
export XCIRCUIT_SRC_DIR=./lib/tcl
./lib/tcl/xcircuit.sh
as suggested by the docs, I had an error --- xcircuit.sh was not made
from xcircuit.sh.in (I do not know why). So I recompiled with:
./configure --prefix=/home/romano/tmp/testbin
and then make, make install. I can now run
/home/romano/tmp/testbin/bin/xcircuit, and:
1) the bug is still there and
2) something has gone bad, the appearance of the app is bad and it seems
not to read my ~/.xcircuitrc-3.8 at all. See here:
http://imgur.com/rsLDMiD
So --- what am I doing wrong this time?
Thanks!
Romano
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