[Plplot-devel] Solaris xwin.c fix

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

Since we use mostly plplot-general and plplot-devel, it was only by accident
that I spotted an xwin suggestion on our forum which appears to be useful.
Please look at
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=105137&forum_id=8607 where
it is stated a change to our XCreateWindow call solves all solaris problems
for this particular user.

I don't know anything about the syntax of XCreateWindow, but it appears the
guy used the X default depth and visual rather than the values known to
plplot (which I assume were either not set correctly at all and the Linux X
server could overcome this or had values which were legal for the Linux X
server but somehow illegal for the solaris X server).  I applied this change
(after correcting his typo where he substituted ev for dev), and it works
fine on my Linux box. Thus, I have gone ahead and put it in CVS as a basis
for further discussion.

BTW, as part of the xwin testing for this I had a look at x20c.  That is
a most interesting and useful capability to add to plplot.

Alan

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