[Xcircuit-dev] Bug Report

[R. Timothy Edwards]

Dear Chris,

> I'd like to report a bug in XCircuit. When running XCircuit under
> StarNet X-Win32, everything works fine. However, when running under
> Cygwin/X (which is now based on X.org, not XFree86, so the website is
> also out-of-date), the menus don't appear. The menu bar is visible,
> and the menu titles highlight when selected, but the menus themselves
> don't appear.

That's a known problem, which *must* be on the xcircuit-dev mailing
list archives somewhere, but if so, then it's worth repeating, and
if not, then here it is:

The non-Tcl/Tk compile of XCircuit has a known problem in which the
"Num Lock" feature must be OFF, or the menus don't appear.  Because
this is some weird interaction between the Xw widget set and the X
server (and/or window manager), the problem may or may not exist
depending on the specific OS version, X server, and window manager.

Normally I just recommend making sure you have the Tcl/Tk development
installation (including header and library files) and compiling the
Tcl/Tk version of XCircuit, which has many more useful features.

					Regards,
					Tim

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