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Motif ALPMOTF03_U4012 DECwindows Motif V1.2-4 Alpha ECO Summary

TITLE: Motif ALPMOTF03_U4012 DECwindows Motif V1.2-4 Alpha ECO Summary NOTE: An OpenVMS saveset or PCSI installation file is stored on the Internet in a self-expanding compressed file. For OpenVMS savesets, the name of the compressed saveset file will be kit_name.a-dcx_vaxexe for OpenVMS VAX or kit_name.a-dcx_axpexe for OpenVMS Alpha. Once the OpenVMS saveset is copied to your system, expand the compressed saveset by typing RUN kitname.dcx_vaxexe or kitname.dcx_alpexe. For PCSI files, once the PCSI file is copied to your system, rename the PCSI file to kitname-dcx_axpexe.pcsi, then it can be expanded by typing RUN kitname-dcx_axpexe.pcsi. The resultant file will be the PCSI installation file which can be used to install the ECO. *Motif] ALPMOTF03_U4012 DECwindows Motif V1.2-4 (Alpha) ECO Summary Modification Date: 06-NOV-2000 Modification Type: Correction made to directory structure at http://ftp.support.compaq.com/public Copyright (c) Compaq Computer Corporation 1998. All rights reserved. PRODUCT: DECwindows Motif[R] for OpenVMS Alpha, Version 1.2-4 COMPONENT: New Desktop Motif Window Manager Login XUI Window Manager Paint Session Manager DECterm Bookreader Calendar Print Screen Cardfiler CDA Viewer Xm Library 1.2.5 DXm Library 1.2.5 XNL Library UIL Compiler Xlib Display PostScript Internationalization SOURCE: Digital Equipment Corporation ECO INFORMATION: ECO Kit Name: ALPMOTF03_U4012 ECO Kits Superseded by This ECO Kit: ALPMOTF02_U4012 ALPMOTF01_U4012 ECO Kit Approximate Size: 32641 Blocks Saveset A - 32571 Blocks Kit Applies To: DECwindows Motif V1.2-4 for OpenVMS Alpha OpenVMS Alpha V6.2 through V7.1 System/Cluster Reboot Necessary: No (See Installation Notes) Installation Rating: 3 - To be installed on all systems running the listed versions of OpenVMS which are experiencing the problems described. Kit Dependencies: The following remedial kit(s) must be installed BEFORE installation of this kit: None In order to receive all the corrections listed in this kit, the following remedial kits should also be installed: None ECO KIT SUMMARY: An ECO kit exists for DECwindows Motif V1.2-4 on OpenVMS V6.2 through V7.1. This kit addresses the following problems: PROBLEMS ADDRESSED IN ALPMOTF03_U4012 KIT: New Desktop problems o Saving a session can cause the session manager to fail. This occurs if the file protections on the directories used to hold the current or home session prevents its renaming or deletion. The session manager creates these directories using the default file protections from OpenVMS. Previously the default would usually give delete access to the owner and therefore the problem was not seen. However, a fix to the C run time library included in the ALPACRT03_071 and ALPY2K01_071 ECO kits has modified the use of defaults so the problem invariably occurs, if one of these kits has been installed. The problem occurs when: o Saving a current session and a current session has previously been saved. o Saving a home session and a home session has previously been saved. o On logout, reverting to the home session and a current session has previously been saved. In all cases the session manager terminates abnormally and records a message in the user's error log file indicating that the directory could not be deleted or could not be renamed. For example, dtsession: Unable to remove session directory. Make sure write permissions exist on dka100:[another]dt directory. Invalid session files will not be removed. The remedial kit addresses this problem by changing permissions to allow renaming and deletion of these directories. The problem can still occur if there is a file within a directory to be deleted which the user does not have permission to delete nor to change the protections. In this case the error message in the log file has been supplemented to identify the file(s) causing problems. X Header Files problems o The XLIBINT.H header file was omitted from the kit and is required by some users. The remedial kit installs this in the DECW$INCLUDE directory. Xm problems o For each text field widget created and destroyed about 120 bytes of memory are leaked. These leaks are fixed in the remedial kit. Motif Window Manager problems o If windows are unmapped while the Motif window manager is not running and the window manager is then restarted, these windows re-appear as empty windows. They cannot be iconified or closed. The remedial kit fixes this by setting the state of these unmapped windows to unmapped when the window manager restarts. XUI Window Manager problems o Two sequences of mouse actions can cause the XUI window manager to terminate with an ACCVIO. The first sequence is to click and hold mouse button 1 or 3 in the window manager's title, click and hold mouse button 2 and move the pointer to the icon area. The second sequence is to click and hold mouse button 1 or 3 in the window manager's title, move the pointer where the icon area was and click on mouse button 2. The remedial kit fixes these problems. Bookreader problems o In Bookreader if the option is taken to print text to PostScript, Bookreader can terminate abnormally. The problem occurs with the formatting of tabular text. Bookreader estimates the number of columns in the text from the structure of white space in the document. If it determines there are six or more columns it overflows internal buffers causing memory corruptions. Since the problem is memory overflow the exact failure behavior can depend on the precise set of topics printed. The remedial kit increases the limit to 20 columns, provides for a recovery action if the limit is exceeded and outputs a diagnostic. UIL Compiler problems o An uninitialized variable in UILWMDCREATE.C can cause the subsequent UIL compilation to fail with error "UIL-E-BAD_DATABASE". The remedial kit fixes this. PROBLEMS ADDRESSED IN ALPMOTF02_U4012: New Desktop problems o If in the File Manager the view option had been set to "By Tree" then use of "Update" from the "View" menu could crash the File Manager. This would occur whenever more than one directory was open. This problem is corrected in the remedial kit. Login problems o If using the DECwindows login (rather than the New Desktop login) the return key could lock the keyboard. This would happen if tab was used to move from the password box to the OK button and the return key pressed. This problem is corrected in the remedial kit. If tab has been used to move to OK or CLEAR the return key is ignored. The space key can be used to activate OK or CLEAR when they are selected. The remedial kit also supports the use of tab to move to the CLEAR button and makes the use of tab with secondary passwords consistent. Motif Window Manager problems o When the file SYS$LOGIN:.; exists and the file SYS$LOGIN:DECW$MWM_RC.DAT file does not exist, the Motif window manager opens that file instead of DECW$SYSTEM_DEFAULTS:DECW$MWM_RC.DAT. As a result, several window menus are not defined. Since the root window menu is not defined, clicking MB1 on the root window does not display a menu. This problem does not occur on OpenVMS VAX. The problem is fixed in the remedial kit. XUI Window Manager problems o If the pointer is moved from the root window to the icon box of the XUI Window Manager whilst a button is depressed the window manager could crash. This problem is corrected in the remedial kit. Bookreader problems o In DECwindows Motif V1.2-4, if a DECnet based file is given along with the password as the filename to the print option, DECW$BOOKREADER displays the actual password in the informational dialog box. This problem is corrected in the remedial kit. o In DECwindows Motif V1.2-4, if a DECnet based file is given along with the password as the filename to the print option, DECW$BOOKREADER displays the actual password as part of the Title in the PostScript file. This problem is corrected in the remedial kit. o In DECwindows Motif V1.2-4, DECW$BOOKREADER fails with an acess violation when printing/saving postcript file on a particular manual. This problem is corrected in the remedial kit. Calendar problems o In DECwindows Motif V1.2-4, DECW$CALENDAR currently accepts a two digit year in its interchange format. However, the two digit year will not work in the year 2000 and beyond. This problem is corrected in the remedial kit by interpreting two digit years as being in the range 1970-2069. DECW$CALENDAR always use a four digit year when writing in the interchange format. Two digit years can only arise if interfacing Calendar with other programs. Print Screen problems o When DECW$PRINTSCREEN generates a PostScript file it writes introductory comments to this file. After the end of 1999 the date written to the file will be wrong. For example, the year 2000 would be output as "19100". This problem is corrected in the remedial kit. Paint problems o When DECW$PAINT generates a PostScript file it writes introductory comments to this file. After the end of 1999 the date written to the file will be wrong. For example, the year 2000 would be output as "19100". This problem is corrected in the remedial kit. CDA Viewer problems o When converting DTIF files to DDIF and the current year is 2000 or later, the year is written incorrectly to the DDIF file: the first two digits of the year are always written as 19. This problem is corrected in the remedial kit. Xm library 1.2.5 problems o In certain applications, an "X Toolkit Error: Cannot perform realloc" error message can be displayed, followed by a traceback. This usually occurs after closing popup menus on which a tear-off menu has been torn off. This problem is fixed in the remedial kit. o When several application modal popup widgets are created at a similar time, the cascade modal mechanism can get confused and the mouse may hang. This problem has been fixed in the remedial kit. o When running on a monochrome display and using a push button gadget, an application program can receive a fatal error. This happens when the gadget has the following resources set: XmNfillOnSelect = true; XmNindicatorOn = false; The error messages seen by the user are: X Error of failed request: BadFont (invalid Font parameter) Major opcode of failed request: 56 (X_ChangeGC) Resource id in failed request: 0xffffffff followed by: [_XDispatchInput - entered in reply state] This problem has been fixed in the remedial kit. DXm library 1.2.5 problems o Trying to open a print window from the DECwindows interface to DEC Notes V2.5 causes an access violation and DEC Notes exits. This problem is fixed in the remedial kit. XNL Library problems o xnl_parsedatetime (and its VAX binding, XNL$PARSE_DATE_TIME) accepts two digit or four digit year in the input argument(XmString s) which is the date-time string to be parsed. Valid years in two digits are from 70 to 99, which mean the years from 1970 to 1999. Values from 00 to 69 are invalid. Year 2000 and later must be specified in four digit format. o xnl_langinfo (and its VAX binding, XNL$LANGINFO) returns a string for date-time formatting when D_FMT or D_T_FMT is specified in the item argument. In the locales listed below, this function returns a formatting string containing %y. This formatting string should be used carefully after the year 2000, as %y indicates the two digit format of the year. o es_ES Spanish o fr_BE French Belgium o fr_CA French Canada o iw_IL Hebrew o no_NO Norwegian UIL Compiler Problems o When compiling a UIL file containing references to a custom widget defined in a WMD file, %UIL-E-CREATE_PROC_REQ and %UIL-W-UNSUPPORTED errors are reported when an XmWorkingDialog widget is defined in the UIL file. Command file problems o The DECW$COMPARE_VERSIONS command file compares versions identifications using a two digit year. As such it will not compare version identifications correctly for images generated after the Year 1999 with those from before. PROBLEMS ADDRESSED IN ALPMOTF01_U4012 KIT: New Desktop problems o In DECwindows Motif V1.2-4 when using the New Desktop, a number of the screen saver patterns are not displayed properly on OpenVMS Version 7.0 and later. Many of the patterns repeat the same sequence, such as a single wiggly worm or firework display. This problem is corrected in the remedial kit. o In DECwindows Motif V1.2-4 using the New Desktop, the Create Action application crashes when the program terminates with the Action Name field left blank. This problem is corrected in the remedial kit. o In DECwindows Motif V1.2-4, the DECsound application can't be started from the New Desktop's "DECwindows Apps" dialog box. It can be started from DCL using the command RUN SYS$SYSTEM:DECSOUND. This problem is corrected in the remedial kit. o In DECwindows Motif V1.2-4, the login box for the New Desktop does not reappear after logging out of a Failsafe session. This problem is corrected in the remedial kit. o In DECwindows Motif V1.2-4 when using the New Desktop, applications invoked using commands that include quoted strings are not restored properly. The result is that the application window will appear uniconified in the current workspace on screen 0. This problem is corrected in the remedial kit. o In DECwindows Motif V1.2-4 when using the New Desktop, deleting security entries from the DECwindows security dialog box in the Style Manager does not take take effect immediately. There are also cases where the security list displayed can get out of sync if multiple updates are made. These problems are corrected in the remedial kit. o In DECwindows Motif V1.2-4, New Desktop font aliases are left as part of the font path consuming server resources even if a DECwindows session is started from the Session login box Option. This problem is corrected in the remedial kit. o In DECwindows Motif V1.2-4 when using the New Desktop, when the File Manager encounters a directory with long filenames, it may create an incomplete list of files in the directory. In cases where icon placement has been set to "As Placed", it may cause the process to hang. These problems are corrected in the remedial kit. o In DECwindows Motif V1.2-4 using the New Desktop, if a logical name is used within the File Manager as a device name which translates to a disk name and is not a terminal or concealed logical then the specified location will be considered invalid. o In DECwindows Motif V1.2-4 when using the New Desktop, the File Manager does not correctly display file protections for files on Spiralog devices. This is visible after selecting a file and pressing "Change Permissions". This problem is corrected in the remedial kit. o In DECwindows Motif V1.2-4 when using the New Desktop, many applications, including the dtwm Window Manager, will crash if the user's home directory or another directory in the icon search path contains many files with long names. This problem is corrected in the remedial kit. o The remedial kit provides a new window interface that allows you to graphically select the screen on which new applications will be displayed when launched from either the Front Panel or the File Manager / Application Manager. The default is to display applications on the "Current Screen". This is is the screen containing the mouse pointer when the application is launched. You can also optionally drop an application icon from the file/application manager onto one of the numbered screen controls (e.g. "Screen 1"). This will start the application on the selected screen without changing the default screen. This interface is activated as before by selecting the "Set Screen" application in the Application Manager's Desktop Tools window. A separate instance of this interface can be started on each screen. The highlighting of the default screen will be synchronized across all instances of the interface. o In DECwindows Motif V1.2-4 when using the New Desktop, days are not highlighted in DECwindows Calendar. This problem is corrected in the remedial kit. o In DECwindows Motif V1.2-4 when using the New Desktop, if the passAll resource is defined for the PrintDialog application, it redefines the value of the pageSize resource to either 0 for false or 1 for true. The default value for PassAll is always used. This problem is corrected in the remedial kit. o In DECwindows Motif V1.2-4, when the user attempts to rebuild help volume files (*.hv and *.hf) using the dthelpgen utility, the utility simply hangs and does not generate the requested files. This problem is corrected in the remedial kit. o In DECwindows Motif V1.2-4 the New Desktop will not run correctly on a display server set up for 75 dpi resolution. This is because the New Desktop requires 100 dpi fonts, and the font path that is set for 75 dpi fonts doesn't fall back to the 100 dpi fonts. This problem is corrected in the remedial kit. Session Manager problems o In DECwindows Motif V1.2-4, in the DECwindows desktop, after the user ends the session, the WM_SAVE_YOURSELF message is only sent to clients displaying on the default screen. The WM_SAVE_YOURSELF message allows clients to save their state when the session is about to end. This problem is corrected in the remedial kit: the message is sent to all clients participating in the WM_SAVE_YOURSELF protocol. DECterm problems o In DECwindows Motif V1.2-4, DECterm window titles are blank when using a window manager other than the Motif Window Manager or the New Desktop's window manager (dtwm). This problem is corrected in the remedial kit. o In DECwindows Motif V1.2-4, when a program calls the DECwTermPort or DECW$TERM_PORT routine, the first resource definition in the customization string is ignored. This can mean, for example, that the DECterm window is created with the wrong title. This problem is corrected in the remedial kit. o In DECwindows Motif V1.2-4, DECterm will not display a non-default (ANSI) color character in the last column of the window. This problem is corrected in the remedial kit. o In DECwindows Motif V1.2-4, when using the New Desktop, DECterm windows are very small after the session is saved and restored, after the user has previously resized the DECterm window. This problem is corrected in the remedial kit. o In DECwindows Motif V1.2-4, when using the New Desktop, DECterm windows created using a CREATE/TERMINAL command containing quotation marks are sometimes not restored, or are restored incorrectly, after the session is saved and restored. This problem is corrected in the remedial kit. Bookreader problems o In DECwindows Motif V1.2-4, when printing certain books in PostScript format in Bookreader, figures overlap with nearby text. This problem is corrected in the remedial kit. Calendar problems o In DECwindows Motif V1.2-4, when a new entry is created in Calendar and the user brings up the entry customization dialog box, alarms are initially shown as being disabled and the wrong alarm times are displayed. These problems are corrected in the remedial kit. Print Screen problems o In DECwindows Motif V1.2-4, when using the Print Screen application to produce PostScript output on some printers, part of the output is missing: the upper and left portion when printing in landscape mode, and the lower and left portion when printing in portrait mode. This problem is caused by differences between PostScript printers. To correct this problem, the remedial kit adds support for four new resources which can be specified in DECW$PRINTSCREEN.DAT: PrintScreen.plxtranslate PrintScreen.plytranslate PrintScreen.plxscale PrintScreen.plyscale These resources control the size and position of the PostScript image on the page. The plxtranslate and plytranslate resources control the x and y offsets of the image in inches from the origin, while plxscale and plyscale are an x and y scale factor to allow the entire image to be displayed on the page after the origin is moved. Cardfiler problems o In DECwindows Motif V1.2-4, images displayed by the Cardfiler application are garbled when displayed on a PC using eXcursion. This problem is corrected in the remedial kit. CDA Viewer problems o In DECwindows Motif V1.2-4, when using the CDA Viewer to display PostScript documents that don't begin with the conventional formatting comments, pages can be displayed as blank when scrolling backward through the document. This problem is corrected in the remedial kit. Xm library 1.2.5 problems o In DECwindows Motif V1.2-4, when dragging a widget with the background color into screen 1 of a dual headed system, the cursor is drawn with the wrong color. This problem is corrected in the remedial kit. o In DECwindows Motif V1.2-4 there are various problems with Drag and Drop in applications which use windows on more than one screen. These problems are corrected in the remedial kit. o In DECwindows Motif V1.2-4 there is a memory leak when Text widgets are destroyed. This problem is corrected in the remedial kit. DXm library 1.2.5 problems o In DECwindows Motif V1.2-4, when all the items in the top_primary widget are suppressed using the suppress options mask before displaying the print widget, the middle_primary and bottom_primary widgets are not visible. This problem is corrected in the remedial kit. Xlib problems o In DECwindows Motif V1.2-4, if a program enters its event loop (e.g. by calling XtAppMainLoop) without having opened a display or specified a timer or event flag for the program to wait for (by calling XtAppAddTimeout or XtAppAddInput), Xlib will terminate the program with the following error message: X Toolkit Error: Error in XMultiplexInput This problem is corrected in the remedial kit. In the situation where there is nothing to wait for, Xlib will wait forever instead of terminating with an error status. To allow Xlib to process events at a later time applications should provide some means of regaining control, such as by specifying an event flag in a call to XtAppAddInput. o In DECwindows Motif V1.2-4, on Alpha systems only, if XReadBitmapFile is passed a bitmap file specification that includes a directory path which includes a dot (at least one subdirectory), the file will not be found. This problem is corrected in the remedial kit. o In DECwindows Motif V1.2-4, the Translated Image Support version of Xlib, DECW$XLIBSHR_TV_SUPPORT.EXE is the same as the version that shipped with DECwindows Motif V1.2, and does not contain any of the later bug fixes. An updated version of DECW$XLIBSHR_TV_SUPPORT.EXE is included in the remedial kit. This is the version of Xlib that is used by VAX images that have been converted to run on Alpha using the VEST utility. Display PostScript problems o In DECwindows Motif V1.2-4, when viewing PostScript files with the CDA Viewer application and displaying to an Alpha workstation, 8 bit ASCII characters do not appear. This problem is corrected in the remedial kit. Internationalization problems o In DECwindows Motif V1.2-4 the DECterm process loops on End Session when the language is Chinese or Korean. The problem does not occur when using the New Desktop, and is corrected in the remedial kit. o In DECwindows Motif V1.2-4, when the CDA Converter converts a line which contains both Latin-1 and Asian text into DDIF format, output is displayed incorrectly. This problem is corrected in the remedial kit. o In DECwindows Motif V1.2-4, on Alpha systems, multiline text input in the Paint program in the Japanese locale does not work properly. This problem is corrected in the remedial kit. o In DECwindows Motif V1.2-4, when using the New Desktop with the locale set to Hebrew, window titles are reversed. This problem is corrected in the remedial kit. o In DECwindows Motif V1.2-4, the list of available languages displayed when you select the language option on the New Desktop login screen appear in English, even if the default language specified in the xconfig.dat file is not. Once a language is selected, however, the language list is displayed in the selected language. This problem is corrected in the remedial kit. INSTALLATION NOTES: If you are installing this kit on OpenVMS Alpha V6.2 or later and did not disable the use of shared linkage sections before starting DECwindows by defining the logical name DECW$IGNORE_SHARE_ADDRESS to TRUE, you will need to reboot the system after installing this kit. If you are not rebooting the system, you will need to start the X11 server in order to make use of the fixes within this kit. This can be accomplished by issuing the following command after the installation is complete: $ @SYS$MANAGER:DECW$STARTUP RESTART The following are trademarks of Digital Equipment Corporation: Alpha, DEC, DECnet, DECterm, DECwindows, Digital, OpenVMS, VAX, and VMS. Motif and OSF are registered trademarks and Open Software Foundation is a trademark of the Open Software Foundation, Inc. X Window System is a trademark of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 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