Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1995 16:16:03 -0700 From: Steve Misek <misek@boulder.openware.com> To: fgreco@lehman.com Cc: oi-users@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Rules to speed up the creation of OI objects Message-ID: <199503102316.QAA28718@marvin.boulder.openware.com>
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:: :: I noticed that if uib is having :: problems with the colormap it streams warning messages to stderr first, :: then it seems that you guys redirect stderr to the footer of uib and :: the "cannot get color blah...blah..." messages get blasted to the uib :: footer. Of course uib resizes to fit the text and I get the "Oprah :: Winfrey Effect"... uib expands and contracts in an seemingly endless :: loop. Is there anything I can do to StopTheMadness(tm)? :: :: - yeah... I know about the "get a 24-bit frame buffer" solution already... ;) :: the stderr first, then revector to internal logging mechanism happens halfway through the builder initialization --- thus all that you're seeing there is the builder asking OI to revector its stderr calls to a function that uib specifies... ok, to keep from getting a dozen email messages about this, the call is: OI_push_stderr this is discussed on pp5-12 in the book that you have buried under piles of paper on your desk. Regarding the annoying messages filtering up from Xlib because *someone* was rude enough (mosaic?) to have stolen *every* color map entry (both of them? :-), to get around the pulsating animation, do the following: In your Xdefaults file, set uib*helpStringLength: 20 by default its set to 50. regarding the "Oprah Effect"... (since you've already stolen all the good jokes) I could discuss uib*animationRate exect *that* joke is so subtle, only two of us will get it... and since that won't be documented for a year or two, I'll refer you back to the helpStringLength instead. steve misek misek@boulder.openware.com
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