Re: [Bug-XBoard] Help Man does not work in Xboard GTK

[h . g . muller]

Op Zo, 24 november, 2013 7:16 pm schreef address@hidden:
> Well, the GTK version is not officially finished yet, and the TODO_GTK
> was used as a kludge to mark all the code that still has to be converted
> from Xaw to GTK. But there doesn't seem to be any reason for this
> particular part not being done yet. Except perhaps that I did not
> understand the original Xaw code (ManInner), for which ManProc is just a
> wrapper to interface platform-dependent code to the new
> platform-independent way of calling things from the 'middle-end'.
>
> It seems that ManInner considers the possibility that it is called with
> (non-NULL) parameters, which, even in the Xaw version, would never happen
> when it was called because the user clicked the 'man' menu item. My guess
> is that in the original XBoard is was possible to define a key binding
> (external to XBoard, in the .xresources file) to ManProc(xxx), where xxx
> could be the name of any man page, and not necessarily xboard, to summon up
> that man page. I am not sure why anyone would ever want to do such a
> thing.
>
> If we drop that
>
>
>> void ManProc () {   // called from menu
>> system("xterm -e man xboard &", name); }
>>
>
> (and deleting ManInner) would do it in a straightforward way (but only
> for 'man xboard').
>
>
> Op Zo, 24 november, 2013 3:43 pm schreef Joshua Pettus:
>
>> I noticed that even on my linux install, xboard isn’t even sending a
>> call for “xterm” when man xboard  is selected under the help menu.  Info
>> works just fine though. But something is not right with this passage
>> under gtk/xboard.c:
>>
>>
>>
>> ManInner (Widget w, XEvent *event, String *prms, Cardinal *nprms)
>> {   // called as key binding
>> char buf[MSG_SIZ]; String name; if (nprms && *nprms > 0) name = prms[0];
>> else name = "xboard";
> snprintf(buf,
>> sizeof(buf), "xterm -e man %s &", name); system(buf); } #endif
>>
>>
>>
>> void ManProc () {   // called from menu
>> #ifdef TODO_GTK
>> ManInner(NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL);
>> #endif
>> }
>>
>>
>>
>> Of course this works in Xaw version of xboard, so I wonder if the
>> #ifdef
>> TODO_GTK is where it’s getting hung up.
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