Re: Swarm Installation report (Linux-FT)

[Sven Thommesen]

At 01:56 AM 1/9/97 -0700, glen e. p. ropella wrote:
>
>> With the help of Barry's report, I was finally able to get my Swarm app to
>> link tcl, tk, and BLT dynamically! The size of my executable dropped from
>> 6M to 2.5M -- definitely worth the effort. (I also in the process upgraded
>> myself to tcl7.5 and tk4.1, with libtclobjc-1.1b6, with success.)
>> 
>> Thanks, Barry!
>> 
>> --Sven
>
>Just one comment.  If you go to 7.5/4.1, remember that there are
>raster refresh problems with that version.  Any time the raster
>is moved or occluded, the raster goes blank and a redraw has to 
>be done to get it back.  I tried (for about 2 seconds) to debug
>7.6/4.2 (I get the same "createPipeline problem" that somebody
>else saw when they tried it).  But, the bug doesn't bother me
>because I don't actually care what the raster is doing at any
>one time slice and so I can always just hit step again without
>regard to the minor change.  But, some people rely on being able
>to freeze-frame and move windows around.
>
>glen
>p.s. If you're going to upgrade, anyway..... you could go to 
>7.6/4.2 and debug that problem, eh?  [grin]
>

Au contraire -- I did notice that peculiar raster blanking,
and I'd rather not live with it since we need to make screen shots.
Back to 7.4/4.0! I'll let the Orkin man take care of this one ...

Sven