Re: commit -- Unix splash screen

albi (onderste@casema.net)
Wed, 26 May 1999 22:19:30 +0200


On Fri, May 14, 1999 at 05:34:08PM -0500, Shaw Terwilliger wrote:

> Should work kinda like the Windows one... differences are:
> Unix splash implemented via X "pop-up" style window, which
> doesn't seem to get key presses. You can still click on the
> window to make it die prematurely, or just wait 2 seconds.
>
> I also haven't found a way to construct the window, then
> the GR_UnixGraphics (using the windows's gc as a canvas),
> then SHOW the result. I have to show the window first,
> then create the GR_UnixGraphics (which can take a while),
> then show everything. The result is a bit of grey time
> in the back of the splash window. No big deal, but I'd
> appreciate any fixes anyone has.

just a sidenote, I tried the official AbiWord 0.7 on SuSE 6.1-evaluation,
and the splashscreen is pretty much visible there, while on Redhat 5.2
it's only a grey screen everytime (not that I feel bad about that, just
reporting ;-).

and since I'm on the subject of SuSE 6.1, I really like to know whether
owners of the official SuSE 6.1 have problems reading word97-doc's.

SuSE 6.1-eval. *still* refuses to read them here (though I must admit that
I've used libstdc++.so.2.8 from Redhat 5.2 to get it running, I'll try to
find a SuSE 6.1 one, if any.).

I also tried building AbiWord on SuSE 5.3-eval and Caldera OpenLinux 1.3,
but both of them don't support glibc, so I've rejected that idea.

-- 
- greetings, Albert -
-- I doubt, therefore I might be.


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