Re: probeDisplay; HP swarm (heatbugs)

[Rick Riolo]

The heatbug dying is strange, since we haven't had
that problem on our HPs.  It starts up and runs fine,
and the pre-defined probe looks ok, too.  

However, recall the problem Ted Belding reported for us, 
ie, that trying to probe heatbugs with the mouse button results in 
problems with coordinates out of range (I think that was it).
Perhaps the problems could be related...but who knows.

- r

ps Ginger, are you still hpux 9.xx?

Rick Riolo                       address@hidden
Program for Study of Complex Systems (PSCS)
1061 Randall Lab     University of Michigan
Ann Arbor MI 48109-1120
http://pscs.physics.lsa.umich.edu/rlr-home.html

On Tue, 28 May 1996, Ginger Booth wrote:

> Date: Tue, 28 May 96 16:11:47 EDT
> From: Ginger Booth <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: probeDisplay
> 
> Hi, gang,
> 
>     Just installed latest release, and had some odd problems:
>     
>     1. FWIW(NM), BLT 2.1 on an HP builds most unreassuringly.  Most of (not
> all) the demos execute OK, partway.  Rick and I both concluded 
> that whatever it took to get the shared library to build, wasn't worth it.
> Might be nice to add something to your FAQ suggesting what minimal subset
> of BLT ought to work right for Swarm to proceed.  (As in, warn the novice
> that it isn't going to install cleanly.)
> 
>     2. Heatbugs dies.  Swarm make'd without a whimper, so did the other
> apps (mousetrap and market), and they executed fine.  But heatbugs crashed
> with "Illegal instruction (core dumped)".  Gdb:  no backtrace.
> So I tossed in some printf's, and found that heatbugs executes fine, 
> after commenting out each of 3 calls to createProbeDisplayFor: .
> 
>     Since I don't intend to use probes for anything this week, I'm going
> to let this dead dog lie for the nonce.  
> 
> Ciao,
>     Ginger
>     
>