Re: [Plplot-general] plplot (fwd)

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

Thanks very much for that fix, Hugh.  I have just put it into the CVS
version of plplot.  For those of you with xwin/solaris troubles (including
those who have reported some solaris troubles with yplot), please test the
cvs version of plplot to see if the troubles go away.

Alan

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On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, H C Pumphrey wrote:

>
> Hi plplot people:
>
> I think I found a bug in plplot which causes the xwin driver to die when
> called from Fortran on Solaris 8.
>
> The bug is in this bit of xwin.c
>
> /* Window title */
>
>     if (plsc->plwindow){    /* jc: allow -plwindow to specify wm
> decoration name*/
>       sprintf(header, "%s", plsc->plwindow);
>     }
>     else
>       sprintf(header, "%s", plsc->program); /* jc: else program name*/
>
> Now, when called from fortran, plsc->program is NULL at this point. In
> Xfree86 on my Linux box, this just causes the window to have (null) as a
> title, but on Slowaris, it causes a segfault. Yuk. One fix is as follows:
>
> /* Window title */
>
>     if (plsc->plwindow){    /* jc: allow -plwindow to specify wm
> decoration name*/
>       sprintf(header, "%s", plsc->plwindow);
>     }
>     else if( plsc->program){
>       sprintf(header, "%s", plsc->program); /* jc: else program name*/
>     }
>     else
>       sprintf(header,"%s","Plplot");
>
> Enjoy!
>
> Hugh
>
> P.S. I am wondering if this is the cause of some of the X weirdness on
> Solaris reported by others.....