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Re: Widget Weirdness [message #65668 is a reply to message #65667]

Thu, 12 March 2009 15:46

ben.bighair
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Registered: April 2007

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On Mar 12, 6:27 pm, David Fanning <n...@dfanning.com> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I just ran into this problem on my Linux machine. I wonder
> if someone can help me test. I ran my Coyote program
> PickColorName:
>
> IDL> c = pickcolorname()
>
> This puts a widget up in the center of the display. I
> then move it off to the side and pick a color. As soon
> as I do, the widget jumps back to the center of the
> display. This is decidedly NOT what it is suppose to do!
>
> I've traced the program (believe it or not) to a command
> in which I am changing the text on a label widget. I have
> confirmed this behaviour with an entirely different program.
> It, too, jumps if I try to change a widget label's text.
>
> Is this a function of my window manager (SUSE 10.? and
> KDE 3.5, I believe), or is this a UNIX (possibly Mac)
> problem in general? If it is a general bug, I would
> like to report it.
>

Hi David,

Same weird behavior here.

IDL> c = pickcolorname()
% Compiled module: PICKCOLORNAME.
% Compiled module: GET_SCREEN_SIZE.
% Compiled module: XMANAGER.
IDL> print, !version
{ ppc darwin unix Mac OS X 6.3 Mar 23 2006 32 64}

Ben

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		Re: Widget Weirdness By: David Fanning on Fri, 13 March 2009 12:49
		Re: Widget Weirdness By: David Fanning on Fri, 13 March 2009 11:53
		Re: Widget Weirdness By: David Fanning on Fri, 13 March 2009 08:45
		Re: Widget Weirdness By: Allan Whiteford on Fri, 13 March 2009 02:58
		Re: Widget Weirdness By: David Fanning on Thu, 12 March 2009 19:49
		Re: Widget Weirdness By: Michael Galloy on Thu, 12 March 2009 16:56
		Re: Widget Weirdness By: Andrew Cool on Thu, 12 March 2009 16:45
		Re: Widget Weirdness By: ben.bighair on Thu, 12 March 2009 15:46
		Re: Widget Weirdness By: Robert Moss, PhD on Wed, 18 March 2009 15:24

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