[Xcircuit-dev] Mouse button changes ?

[John Heil]

On Wed, 24 May 2006, R. Timothy Edwards wrote:

> Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 23:08:26 -0700
> From: R. Timothy Edwards <tim.edwards at multigig.com>
> To: John Heil <edadev at sc-software.com>
> Cc: xcircuit-dev at opencircuitdesign.com
> Subject: Re: [Xcircuit-dev] Mouse button changes ?
>
> Dear John,
>
> Sorry it took me so long to get around to answering you (particularly
> since I started to answer three days ago).
>
> > I've been running 3.2.22 and tried to upgrade to 3.4.22 and 3.6.24
> > and the mouse buttons won't work...
> >
> > I have a 3 button device and button 1 used to set a point or a box
> > corner etc but in these newer releases, none of that works anymore.
> >
> > What do I need to do to regain mouse button function for these
> > releases?
>
> In version 3.4, I switched to a system in which the toolbar tools
> represent different modes of operation for the mouse buttons.
> Because prior to 3.4, the "wire mode" was the default button
> binding, I added a toolbar button to represent "wire mode".  On
> startup, this button (the second one from the top) should have a
> highlighted boundary.

All the buttons, when clicked, either show the hilighted boundary
or immediately perform their function as in the case of the
library buttons.

The problem is that when I then move the cursor to the location
that I want to start the wire, no button nor button and key combo,
starts the wire... or the box... or the...

> If not, try clicking on it to enable wire
> drawing mode.
>
> Another change made button bindings more like key bindings, so
> there is a possibility that you have some interaction with the
> window manager with regard to key focus.  What window manager do
> you use?

All my many other X apps including other CAD packages, all have
proper mouse button operations...


My window manager is FVWM 2.4.16

My TCL  is  8.4.4
   TCLX is  8.3.5
   TK   is  8.4.4
   TIX  is  8.1.4


> Be sure to compile the Tcl/Tk version of xcircuit, as it
> tends to be much better behaved with a variety of window managers.
>

I rebuilt it from:     ./configure --with-tcl ; make
Ran the result from:   export XCIRCUIT_LIB_DIR=./lib ; lib/tcl/xcircuit.sh

and no change... mouse buttons are useless in the drawing space.

What is the syntax to program them to behave as they did prior to 3.4 ?

Thnx


> > Also, on the 3.6.24, --enable-asg, has build errors, what to I
> > need to get that operational it that's possible ?
>
> ASG has never worked, was removed from the 3.4 (stable) release because
> it's basically unstable, and will hopefully get done eventually, one
> way or another.
>
> 					Regards,
> 					Tim
>
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