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Re: Widget problems [message #363 is a reply to message #361] Mon, 18 May 1992 17:28 Go to previous message
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In article <1992May18.143725.24636@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu>, murthy_j@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Jayant Murthy) writes:
>
> I am just starting to use widgets and I'm having a lot of trouble with the
> IDL hanging; I have to use a ctrl-z to stop the process. I suspect that most
> of the problem was caused by my using a Draw widget and the mouse
> generating thousands of events in that window. I have now switched over to
> using a regular window for my graphics and just using widgets for buttons and
> sliders.
> Is this a common problem and is there any reason to use a Draw widget rather
> than a regular window? Even now ISL hangs occaisonally; I think it is usually
> when I move my mouse over another wdget immediately after selecting one.
> I am running IDL v2.3.0 under IRIX 4.4.

The problem could be caused by your server not handling the backing store
properly. Try it again after saying DEVICE,RETAIN=2 to force idl to look after
the backing store.

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