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Re: WINDOW, /PIXMAP Question [message #32574 is a reply to message #32573]

Tue, 22 October 2002 12:51

R.Bauer
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Registered: November 1998

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Mostafa El-Kady wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have a program that draws some graphics to an off-screen buffer then
> grab the image and save it to JPEG file. It runs fine on my SGI machine
> with IRIX 6.5.17.
>
> When I telnet from to the SGI from a Windows machine at home and run the
> program, it works as long as I leave my account at the SGI is till open.
> If I have logged out from the SGI and tried the program by telnet from
> home, it crashes at the statement:
>
> WINDOW, /PIXMAP, /FREE
>
> and give the following error:
> % WINDOW: Unable to connect to X Windows display: 0.0
> % WINDOW: Unable to open X Windows display.
>
> Has anyone encountered similar problem and know a work-around?
>
> Thanks for the help.

I believe if you use the Z-Buffer Device
set_plot,'Z'
instead of
WINDOW, /PIXMAP, /FREE
you will not have this problem

You must try if it could be used as replacement,
because there are some differences in the coding.

regards

Reimar

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		Re: WINDOW, /PIXMAP Question By: William Daffer on Tue, 22 October 2002 17:13
		Re: WINDOW, /PIXMAP Question By: Mostafa El-Kady on Tue, 22 October 2002 13:52
		Re: WINDOW, /PIXMAP Question By: R.Bauer on Tue, 22 October 2002 12:51
		Re: WINDOW, /PIXMAP Question By: James Kuyper on Tue, 22 October 2002 12:44
		Re: WINDOW, /PIXMAP Question By: Rick Towler on Tue, 22 October 2002 12:02
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