Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Ken Evans <[email protected]> · Wed, 2 Sep 1998 11:41:19 -0500

"PJ" == Pete Jemian <[email protected]> writes:

 PJ> The pop-up menus (MEDM "menu" object) in the latest MEDM release
 PJ> (MEDM 2.3.4a) are coming up *behind* the window instead of in
 PJ> front of the window.  This happens when the MEDM is running from
 PJ> a Sun Solaris 2.5.1 UNIX server and being displayed on a WinNT
 PJ> 4.0 PC & Win95 PC & Win98 PC running Micro XWin32 (X window
 PJ> server) from Starnet Communications.

 PJ> Since the pop-up menus worked correctly in MEDM 2.3.3 with the
 PJ> same configurations, don't anybody suggest to replace the X
 PJ> window server with <favorite X window server here>.

 PJ> Isn't there a generic fix for this sort of problem?  What could
 PJ> have changed in the new MEDM version to introduce this problem?

     The answer is "I don't know."  Popup windows are handled by Motif
and are not under the control of MEDM.  Also, they work correctly for
me when running on the same Solaris 5.5.1 (aka 2.5.1) and displaying
on my Windows 95 PC with the Exceed X Server (or on Solaris).  The
WIN32 version also works correctly displaying on Exceed or on the
remote Solaris.  This is hard to debug because it isn't my code doing
it, because Motif grabs the server (making debugging difficult), and
because it doesn't happen for me.  Suggestions will be considered.

     A detailed set of steps that I can follow to reproduce the
problem and a description of just what happens for you would be
useful.  I am assuming by "popup menus" you mean the Execute-mode menu
(with Print, Close, etc.) and things like the Related Display.

	-Ken

 PJ> I also see the problem on WinNT 4.0 PC running the Sun Solstice
 PJ> Network Client 3.1 X window server.  However, SNC has had this
 PJ> problem with *every* MEDM that has come out.

 PJ> Regards, Pete

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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