Re: TkExtra -- Swarm App w/o X

[Sven N. Thommesen]

You did say './appname -batchmode', yes ?

--Sven


At 02:33 PM 7/24/98 +0200, you wrote:
>Hi Folks,
>
>I remember there was a thread recently with the word TkExtra in the
>subject, but I was unable to find the orginial message. I only found
>several answers and those suggested that that was another question.
>
>So, my problem is that in some cases I would like to run my swarm-app
>through a terminal which does not have any graphics to it (suppose an old
>VT320, eg.). I wrote the code to run in batch mode, and did not use
>GUISwarm and no fancy GUI tools anywhere. However, running my app without
>X results in the following message:
>
>error: TkExtra (instance)
>
>IOT trap/Abort (core dumped)
>
>I looked at it more closely and it turned out that InitSwarm tries to
>initialize TkObjc but fails as no graphics is available.
>
>So my question would be: is it possible to have a fully GUI-less
>swarm-app, and if so, how to do it.
>
>I have to admit that I am still using 1.0.2, so this might have been fixed
>in later versions.
>
>Thanks in advance!
>
>Gulya
>CEU Systems Laboratory
>Budapest, Hungary
>
>
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