Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Robert Soliday <[email protected]> · Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:35:55 -0500

You can get the latest CVS version of medm to compile and run without segfaulting on Fedora 7 with lesstif and lesstif-devel with the following changes:

cvs diff: Diffing .
cvs diff: Diffing medm
Index: medm/medm.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /net/phoebus/epicsmgr/cvsroot/epics/extensions/src/medm/medm/medm.c,v
retrieving revision 1.165
diff -r1.165 medm.c
457c457
<     { "Save All",  &xmPushButtonGadgetClass, 'l', "Ctrl<Key>L", NULL, NULL,
---
>     { "Save All",  &xmPushButtonGadgetClass, 'l', "Ctrl<Key>L", "Ctrl+L", NULL,
501c501
< { "Overview",  &xmPushButtonGadgetClass, 'O', "Ctrl<key>H", NULL, NULL,
---
> { "Overview",  &xmPushButtonGadgetClass, 'O', "Ctrl<key>H", "Ctrl+H", NULL,
cvs diff: Diffing medm/help
cvs diff: Diffing medm/notes
cvs diff: Diffing printUtils
cvs diff: Diffing xc
Index: xc/Matrix.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /net/phoebus/epicsmgr/cvsroot/epics/extensions/src/medm/xc/Matrix.c,v
retrieving revision 1.16
diff -r1.16 Matrix.c
43a44
> #ifndef LESSTIF_VERSION
44a46
> #endif
Index: xc/WheelSwitch.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /net/phoebus/epicsmgr/cvsroot/epics/extensions/src/medm/xc/WheelSwitch.c,v
retrieving revision 1.6
diff -r1.6 WheelSwitch.c
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> #ifdef LESSTIF_VERSION
> Widget XmGetTabGroup();
> #else
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> #endif
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< 
---
> #ifdef LESSTIF_VERSION
>         if(_XmGetFocusPolicy(widget) == XmEXPLICIT
>           && widget != XmGetTabGroup(widget)) {
>           (void)XmProcessTraversal(widget, XmTRAVERSE_CURRENT);
>       }
> #else
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> #endif
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> #ifdef LESSTIF_VERSION
>         if(_XmGetFocusPolicy(widget) == XmEXPLICIT
>           && widget != XmGetTabGroup(widget)) {
>           (void)XmProcessTraversal(widget, XmTRAVERSE_CURRENT);
>       }
> #else
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> #endif
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> #ifdef LESSTIF_VERSION
>     if(_XmGetFocusPolicy(widget) == XmEXPLICIT
>       && widget != XmGetTabGroup(widget)) {
>       (void)XmProcessTraversal(widget, XmTRAVERSE_CURRENT);
>     }
> #else
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> #endif

I have opened two complex medm screens with this and it displayed them properly. However I have not interacted with the widgets so I don't know if they behave properly under lesstif.

--Bob

----- Original Message -----
From: Andrew Johnson <[email protected]>
Date: Monday, October 15, 2007 2:06 pm
Subject: Re: fedora core 7 medm (was >> Re: MEDM compile - update :)

> Bertrand H.J. Biritz asked:
> 
> > Is there any word on if/when MEDM will work with lesstif?
> 
> APS no longer has any developer(s) permanently tasked with 
> maintaining MEDM, although we will assign someone to fix any 
> serious bugs that arise and to keep it building on the latest OS 
> releases.  We only use MEDM with Motif or OpenMotif, and our 
> management won't allow us to put any effort into making it work 
> with Lesstif.  If someone wants to work out what needs changing 
> we'd be happy to review and possibly merge any patch files, 
> although personally I suspect the problems are all inside Lesstif, 
> not in MEDM (we won't accept patches that cause the Motif build to 
> break).
> I'm not sure it's worth doing personally (sorry).
> 
> - Andrew
> 

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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