Release notes for LessTif

Release 0.83

• New configuration based on automake, autoconf, libtool. All of these are GNU tools available from the usual sites, such as ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu" but you don't need to have any of these for using or building LessTif unless you want to alter LessTif itself (adding directories, files to treat by configure, ...).
• The new configuration won't change anything for you; if you want to build LessTif you still only need to run

  	configure add your options here
  	make
       

• If however you change anything to a makefile.am, or to configure.in, or if you're running Cygwin32 or OS/2 (once these things get ported) you'll have to run the following sequence :

  	autoheader	creates include/LTconfig.h.in
  	automake -i	converts Makefile.am into Makefile.in
  	autoconf	converts Makefile.in into Makefile
  	configure	add your options here
  	make
       

• In the M*tif 2.0 compatibility area, a couple of things happened. The XmeDrawArrow routine was improved. It now acts as the M*tif 2.0 version of the function. All XmeDraw* routines have been moved from Xme.c to Draw.c. Removed the link Shadows.c and added a file Obso1_2.c for 1.2 routines deemed obsolete in 2.0. Added new tests for the XmeDrawArrow routine. Also, the size calculation routines of the XmComboBox widget were improved.
• The scripts/mmf will rebuild the Makefile in the directory in which your run the script. It's much faster than rebuilding all the Makefiles by running configure on the whole distribution. Be careful when using it after modifying configure.in though; you will end up with an inconsistent set of Makefiles.
• There is now a XmPanedWindowWidget in the 2.0 directory as well; it is nearly the same as the 1.2 version : the only difference is an additional resource (XmNorientation). SashAction (interactively moving the panes) isn't 100% foolproof yet. Xinvest uses this.
• Notebook (also in 2.0, see below) is beginning to do sensible things. It uses some of the traits in sensible ways, and can be used to display pages and page through them using both a SpinBox and tabs.
• For those of you who are using a binary distribution of LessTif: there are currently no 2.0 widgets in those; our binary distributions are 1.2 based for now. You can build a 2.0 version from source by running

  	configure --enable-build-20	more options
  	make
       

• Placement of the XmComboBox scrolled list is now correct. However, the initial size calculation of the scrolled list is incorrect. Added a new internal routine called XmeShellSmartPlacement (see file PopupUtil.c). This routine attempts to keep the shell completely visible before XmePopup* is called. Also, added two XmePopup* routines to wrap the XtPopup family of routines.
• More 2.0 stuff... Added header file DrawP.h to the include/Motif-2.0/Xm directory. Removed Xme* function declarations from DrawP.h in the include/Motif-1.2/Xm directory. These routines do not exist in the 1.2 tree and would result in unresolved symbol errors if used.
• You can build from other directories than LessTif's root directory. This is what I did on my system (from LessTif's root) :

  	mkdir DEBUG
  	cd DEBUG
  	../configure  --prefix=/usr/lesstif20g --enable-debug --enable-build-20 --enable-nonstandard-conversions
  	make
  	cd ..
  	mkdir PRODUCTION
  	cd PRODUCTION
  	../configure  --prefix=/usr/lesstif20 --disable-debug --enable-build-20 --enable-nonstandard-conversions --enable-production
  	make
       

• Added a couple of Makefiles to also install doc/www.lesstif.org when doing a "make install". Consequence is that binary distributions will also contain the information from the web site. (At least a snapshot of it taken at release time.)
• Added a couple of manual pages donated by Ray Dassen and put them in doc/lessdox/clients.
• Added Makefiles so the manpages above are installed in PREFIX/LessTif/doc/man and PREFIX/LessTif/doc/html .

Release 0.82

• Build support for the Cygnus Win32 environment. May not be complete yet.
• Finally implemented a default functions for TopShadowPixmap and HighlightPixmap in Primitive and Manager.
• 2.0 compatible widgets : GrabShell (internal widget), SpinBox should work reasonably.
• 2.0 : Traits also implemented (which is not a big deal), but no work has been done on adding traits to widgets, except where needed for SpinBox.
• Peter Pilgrim gave us the basics for XmPartOffsets. Thanks, Peter.
• Build : add run-time library path options (-R on Solaris, NetBSD; -Wl,-rpath on OSF/1).
• Added the web pages for the LessTif site to CVS. Now you can see in lesstif-*/doc/www.lesstif.org what you normally get from http://www.lesstif.org
• Add string to widget converter. Apparently Motif 1.2 has this but previous versions didn't.
• Various fixes to XmText; one of which was the I-beam cursor overwriting initially displayed text.
• Build support for SlackWare and RedHat.
• Work on popup menus has led to a revamping of the menu system in general. Popup menus should show better behavior now, although keyboard focus isn't 100% yet. Grabbing in general should be handled a little better now (I'm interested if people get messages about "XtWarning: Asked to remove widget not on the grab list"). Mnemonics and accelerators should behave better. Option menus should also behave better, in general.

Release 0.81

• Added stuff-to-string converters to the Editres functions built into LessTif. Also fixed the bug that prevented it from passing getting values. You'll also need a small patch on your editres to use this. (See below.) After that, you'll be able to query widget values with editres.

  *** programs/editres/handler.c.r6     Sun Apr 17 20:38:56 1994
  --- programs/editres/handler.c  Tue Feb 07 14:36:12 1995
  ***************
  *** 813,820 ****
        /*CreateGetValuesCommand(node, (XtPointer)&info);  Inserts widget */
   
        /* Insert widget */
  !     _XEditResPut16(stream, 1);
  !     _XEditResPut32(stream, node->id);
  
        SetCommand(node->tree_info->tree_widget, LocalGetValues, NULL);
    } 
  --- 814,820 ----
        /*CreateGetValuesCommand(node, (XtPointer)&info);  Inserts widget */
  
        /* Insert widget */
  !     InsertWidgetFromNode(stream, node);
  
        SetCommand(node->tree_info->tree_widget, LocalGetValues, NULL);
    }
  

  All of this code was donated by Peter Derr <pderr@zk3.dec.com>.
• Many more geometry fixes.
• The code has been struck by the mad indenter. Most core library code will now have a consistent look.
• Various fixes for xmcd - see KNOWN_BUGS.
• In the Motif 2.0 compatibility area, a couple of things happened. Traits were implemented, a XmSpinBox widget has an initial implementation, and a couple of widgets (XmTextField, VendorShell) were copied from the 1.2 directory to cooperate better with XmSpinBox. (Read: they support traits).
• Build fixes for a 2.0 compatible library.

Release 0.80 alpha

• Work on selecting text, copy/paste, ... in XmText has begun. It's somewhat functional : primary selections seem to work, not all key combinations for the keyboard traversal business may be supported yet though. (Please send E-mail to lesstif@hungry.com if anything's missing.) Nothing has been done for secondary selections yet.
• Support for SetValues and GetValues on resources in the input and output objects of XmText is implemented now. Not all resources are treated yet though (especially SetValues), but at least changing the fontList seems to work. Mxgdb demonstrates that GetValues also works.
• Lots and lots of work on geometry.
• Added a Makefile target "install-list" everywhere, which prints a list of files that the "install" target will install.
• Based on this, created stuff in scripts/FreeBSD to create a binary package that can be installed with pkg_add(8) easily. Waiting for someone to do similar stuff for Linux.
• Drag and Drop is "primitive", at best. Do not be surprised if Btn2Click on labels and subclasses cause you problems.

Release 0.79

• Fix build problems in 0.78, new Form code.

Release 0.78

• New directory structure to allow for CDE and 2.0 widgets.
• For testing purposes, the Interleaf ComboBox widget is added to the Xm-CDE directory. If someone cares to replace or enhance it, please do so. I'm no legal expert, but enforcing LGPL license on LessTif if part of it is covered by the license Interleaf has put in, might be contradictory. (Note that the Interleaf license is more liberal than LGPL.)
• A version of ComboBox with "dt" changed into "xm" is also put into the Xm-2.0 directory for testing purposes. Similar comments apply : we may want to replace this sucker.
• New version of configure.cmd (for OS/2) from Michael Holzapfel.
• Layout details (remember the "Pixel Police" ?) are finally understood and are getting into place in ScrolledWindow.
• Drag and Drop is somewhat working at this point. We don't do PREREGISTER (because nobody has documented it), so it gets emulated by the DYNAMIC protocol. Cross application dragging doesn't work yet.
• Improvements to the menu system. Option menus look a bit better, popup menus have improved and grab balancing is close to being OK.

Release 0.78

• Started rework on XmMainWindow following similar work on XmScrolledWindow. Compile with -DNEW_MAINW to enable.
• Added stuff that'll allow applications to be compiled using imake. LessTif itself continues to be configured using a "configure" script generated with GNU Autoconf.
• Added DEBUG_FILE variable to DebugUtil.c so you can direct debug output to a file easily. It's faster than scrolling in an xterm window. Also apps like ML hang when you send stuff to stderr because they catch stderr and throw whatever they find in a Motif (err LessTif) XmText widget. Chicken and egg problem. Try using it with setenv DEBUG_FILE /tmp/lesstif.%p
• Improvements to the menuing system.
• DragDrop has been started. Drag cursors are about the only thing that work, though.
• Major changes to the source tree layout are upcoming in the next release.

Release 0.76

• The clipboard has mostly been implemented, but it does still have a few problems.
• The implementation of XmScrolledWindow has been completely reworked. Results should be visible in plan and xdiff.
• There is a new #define, NONSTANDARD_EXTENSIONS. This is not enabled by default. If enabled, it will allow lesstif to transparently convert a string to a pixmap for resource converters (which many people feel Motif should have done a long time ago). Thanks to Peter Williams for this patch.

Release 0.75

• Public release.

Release 0.71

• XmRegion code is getting there. -- Chris
• New List widget. Thanks Blake and Jon!
• The clients/uil directory is being reworked completely. You'll notice that all the C++ stuff is gone. Thanks Geoff.
• Configure was extended so you can choose not to compile the testXm and/or testMrm directory trees. Use configure -help to find out more. Configure also recovers if testXm or testMrm are not there. -- Danny
• Default for the new options --with-testXm and --with-testMrm changed to *No* meaning tests only get compiled if you want them to. -- Danny
• Traversal/Focus/Navigation has been completely reworked; They should function much better these days. This change was fairly massive, so some things are surely broken. Feedback requested. -- Mitch
• XmFontList and XmString have new implementations; they should be more faithful to their Motif equivalents.
• LessTif should also work on OS/2 now. Thanks Michael Holzapfel and Christoph Jaeschke.
• Rewrite of mwm. It's much better behaved now, with most appearance resources and a good bit of the behavior resources supported. Transients, when they go away, now give the focus back to their parents (which might help with the locking focus problem sometimes seen in fvwm). SYSTEM_MODAL dialog support is more or less in, but cascading system modals will not be well behaved. The parser is much more friendly, and shouldn't have any problems with multiple menus. Multiscreen support is in (although you can't specify resources for each screen, but global resources work fine). Most of the Motif oddities with window properties are supported, including run-time update of the properties, application defined window menus, f.send_msg, etc. Dialogs for quitting, restarting, and toggling custom behavior are in (with some drawing problems, but they do work). As always, feedback on what works and what doesn't is desired. See the files clients/mwm/README and clients/mwm/Mwm for details. -- Mitch
• Pulldown menus work a bit better. -- Peter
• Many geometry management fixes (esp. in RowColumn). -- Danny
• The debugSources resource was removed; only the environment variable is left in the code.

  setenv DEBUGSOURCES Command.c:SelectionBox.c 

  should do the trick.
• Dialog modality is partially implemented. Thanks Harald.

Release 0.50

• Option menus are now in (somewhat). -- Chris
• Menu Gadget support is almost up to the level of Widgets. Use it with caution, as it may lock your server. Mosaic 2.7b2 menu items are selectable now. -- Chris
• Debugging info from LessTif can be enabled by setting environment variable DEBUGSOURCES or the equivalent resource to a list of the source files that you want to see info from. test2 -xrm "*debugSources: Command.c:SelectionBox.c" -- Danny
• Quick and Dirty implementation of internationalisation (i18n) for TextField. Works on XFree86 3.1.2 on FreeBSD, and on HPUX with X11R5. -- Danny
• First cut at FastSubclassing. Starting rework of GadgetCache objects to be more in line with Motif. SyntheticResources and Resolution Independence are in, but a bit shaky (maybe). Many more import/export procs need to be written. Both Chris and I are working on the BaseClass stuff -- quite a lot to do there. More mwm improvements (should be more stable on more platforms now). Need to work on "shields up" for modality and multiscreen support for it. If you experience core dumps with mwm, check and see if you compiled the library -- on some platforms, modifying the library a running executable uses can cause this (Solaris, Linux), as they think it's pure code, and don't swap it. The alternative is to link mwm statically. Oh, and I got rid of those pesky warnings in LTEditres.c. -- Mitch
• GeoUtils have (somewhat) been implemented. They still need work, though. -- Mitch
• Pulldown menu grabbing is in the works. It kinda works for Cascade button WIDGETS, not at all for gadgets yet. In the gadget case, it's #ifdef-fed out. In the widget case it is not. If your menus appear to freeze, pressing Escape usually helps. If it does not, please send me detailed info. -- Danny (u27113@kb.be)

Release 0.36

• Initial version of Mwm is in. It's a bit rough, so don't expect to much.
• Menu dragging is sort of working better. This only applies for widget, so menus that use gadgets (such as those in Mosaic) will not work. This will change quickly, so be patient.
• Initial TearOffButton stuff
• Fixed bug in configure.in for NetBSD/FreeBSD using GNU make
• Added support for linux-aout shared libaries. Thanks JanJaap!
• New Gadget Cache and ExtObj stuff.
• Better (more in line) geometry management in the RowColumn widget, the PanedWindow, and the Frame.
• Lots o changes in Form, MessageBox, BulletinBoard.
• Rob McMullen's TextField widget has been folded into lesstif. Thanks Rob!
• RepTypes are actually working now. How come nobody told me :)?
• Drag and Drop is beginning to take shape.

Release 0.33

• Harald Albrecht has contributed implementations of the VirtKeys stuff, XmDisplay widget, and the first "official" Lesstif client - xmbind
• The configuration management stuff should be working much better and more portably across all the supported architectures. For those of you with Free/Net BSD, you can now use BSD make to build lesstif for your machine. Check out the INSTALL file for more information on configuration.
• Gadgets and Manager widgets now communicate in a much more Motif-like fashion (with the _XmDispatchGadgetInput function). Gadgets specify an event mask to tell their parent what events they're interested in. Also, more gadget events are handled, like the enter/leave events.
• The beginning of the default button handling in dialogs is in -- in the ParentProcess stuff.
• The list widget should be a little less problematic now.
• Included John Richardson's patch for XmLabelWidget/Gadget. Now label behavior is much better.
• _XmDrawArrow (Mitch's baby :) is behaving itself better lately.
• We're starting to go after some of the more underlying things, like the GeoUtils and Traversal stuff. Don't expect miracles though.
• Fixed some problems with the Fontlist stuff returning NULL.
• Lot's more stuff that I've forgotten. If I missed something you sent in, please resend it (after seeing if it wasn't fixed another way :)

Release 0.3

• The list widget is currently undergoing a reworking. Please don't expect much, but I'm working on it.
• ScrolledWindows are working better. Thanks Mitch.
• Applied countless million patches :) Some didn't make it in. I'll try to get to those soon.
• memcpy and memmove are not used anymore. We now include Xfuncs.h and use bcopy. If your system has a better way of doing it, it's probably set in there.
• Configuration system should be working better.
• makedepend is now used for generating dependencies. If you don't have it, comment out the lines in libXm and libMrm that use it. Lesstif will eventually be packaged with makedepend so that it'll build it if it can't find yours.
• Scales and Scrollbars are basically done (we think) barring minor cosmetic changes. Thanks Mitch and Peter.
• Default buttons are now drawn differently in bulletin boards (and subclasses). They're not correct, but they're drawn differently.
• Code for handling unspecified width/heights has been changed to check the request widget's width and height, and now it checks for 0, instead of XmUNSPECIFIED.

Release 0.2

• Updates for MessageBox/BulletinBoard
• Fixed primitive widgets unhighlighting themselves.
• Better scale/scrollbar widgets -- patches from Mitch.
• Added _XmClearBorders. This function should be used to erase shadows and highlights. Primitives now call it to erase their highlights when their parent is not a manager.
• Added default button shadows to PushButtonWidgets
• Added shared library support for HPUX 9, IRIX, Linux (ELF only), FreeBSD, NetBSD, DEC OSF/1, SunOS 4, Solaris 2, AIX3, DG/UX 5. I want your input on the current scheme. Does everybody like it? Thanks to Xiaokun Zhu for his help.
• Fixed problems with missing \n\'s in Transltns.c
• Fixed x_includes and x_libraries not being set on IRIX after configuration
• Moved to include'ing a template makefile for the tests. Made their Makefiles much smaller.

Release 0.1

• Changed lesstif to use autoconf instead of imake This will hopefully make it easier to configure stuff for different platforms so that the globbing stuff works correctly. Along with this change, however, is the new job of getting shared libraries built for each platform. If you have an idea on how we should go about doing this, please let me (toshok@hungry.com) know.
• The glob stuff has changed to be in the same directory as the other libXm stuff, and the function names have changed to _Lesstif_glob, etc. The filenames have also changed, to LTglob{.c,.h} and LTfnmatch{.c,.h}
• From this release on, libXmu need not be linked in with lesstif. This is because we now include the _XEditresCheckMessages function, calling it _LesstifEditresCheckMessages. The relevant file is LTEditresCom.c.
• This release contains lots of fixes to the form widget from Danny et al., and a new AtomManager from Harald Albrecht, which is doubtlessly more efficient than the previous incarnation. Excellent work Harald!
• Vendor shell now responsed to the XmNmwmDecorations and XmNmwmFunctions resources. If you have mwm running, you can now specify programmatically the decorations and functions that toplevel shells have. Neato.
• From this release on, I'm now going to start using numeric release numbers, (0.1, 0.2, etc.) so that when shared libraries start working, we can have a direct correspondence between the distribution and the shared libraries.
• The Label widget's insensitive GC is now properly created.
• CascadeButtonGadgets now draw themselves in the proper color, and are properly highlighted by XmCascadeButtonHighlight.
• The menu system doesn't grab you server anymore, so you can run programs that have menus without fear of locking you server. Xt grabs are used, however, which is the way things should work (in part. Server grabs are necessary, but I'll get to that once the toolkit grabs are functioning properly.)
• Most of the correct Motif translations have been integrated into lesstif. You'll probably see lots of warning messages about lesstif not being able to find an action. These will go away soon.
• I hear we're going to be written up again in next month's Linux Journal. Great work guys!

Release Sep12-1524

• Most widgets now have their correct motif translations. Not all the specified actions are present, but those will come along.
• Pixmap top and bottom shadows are supported now, both for manager and primitive widgets.
• The primitive widget in general is almost complete. One gaping lack of functionality is the resolution independence offered by synthetic resources.
• Better set_values methods for some widgets. They now don't do silly things, like checking the request against new...
• More complete interaction between mwm and XmVendorShell, including client decorations and functions (see the testXm/vendor testcases)
• Better XmTranslateKey (actually, it's still rather broken..)
• Buttons now draw themselves better in menus (i.e., no highlight rectangles) -- I think...
• Blinking cursors for XmTextField (yay!)
• Updates and fixes to many, many things...
• I'm holding off on putting in the autoconf stuff until I get it functioning properly, or at least better...

Release Sep01-1407

• PushButton now correctly catches the ButtonUp event when the pointer is moved out and back into the widget, as do the other button widgets, withough the in_window field. Gadgets also handle this correctly now, through their parent's manager translations.
• PushButtons now fill in their interior when fillOnArm is set to true.
• ArrowButton gadgets now draw themselves correctly, not at (0,0).
• Many more fixes to widget code to use the #define'd access macros.
• Pixmaps are drawn more correctly in label subclasses -- i.e., they're centered properly (well, one or two pixels off, but who's counting) when the widget is smaller than the pixmap.
• Form and MessageBox updates from Danny
• Scale updates from Mitch
• Fixed NASTY bug with some default procedures. The offending functions used XtDisplay() instead of XtDisplayOfObject() -- they're supposed to work with both widgets and gadgets -- and these would cause SIGSEGV's on my box, except they would happen in between the call to class_part_initialize and initialize. Ugh.. Actually, I've fixed various places where XtDisplay() is used for gadgets, like in the SeparatorGadget and ToggleButtonGadget expose routines...
• We're now using the translations supplied in the mot.trans file (testXm/misc/mot.trans), generated by Mitch Miers, for most widgets. I'll add the rest for the next release. Please nobody send me them as a patch, I'll enter them myself.
• Fixed bug in SeparatorG that was using the XmUNSPECIFIED for the direction that its oriented in (e.g., width = XmUNSPECIFIED when orientation = XmHORIZONTAL).
• Gadget seem to be working with MessageBoxes now... Dialogs! Yay!
• The menu system is in need of some overhaul and much pencil and paper work. The next release may not affect too much more than that (well, I won't be working on much more than the menu system and traversal)
• I have not yet had a chance to try out lesstif on DEC's public alpha machine. There were some problems with out of scope function prototypes causing memory alignment problems. These are not fixed (to my knowledge) in this release. I'll look into it for the next release.
• I've cooked together a configure scheme for lesstif, which I'll be patching into the source tree something this next week. It will handle most of the system dependent things much better than the imake system we're using now.
• Wow... A lot has changed :)

Release Aug23-2257

• Converted the primitive widgets to use the "correct" preprocessor symbols (e.g., Prim_ShadowThickness(w), XtWidth(w), etc.) Actually, I got most of the way through this... Too much work for one night. I'll finish up the rest for the next release.
• Pervasive change from using strdup() to XtNewString(), and Xt{Malloc,Calloc,Free,Realloc}, instead of their C library counterparts.
• Re-engineered the event handling of the PushButton widget. This removed the funky and unnecessary "in_window" instance variable. The only problem appears when the select button is pressed inside the pushbutton, and then the pointer is moved outside the window and then back in -- the ButtonRelease event is not passed to the widget. Moving the pointer outside the window and releasing, as well as clicking inside the window work, though. This should be an easy, boneheaded fix, somewhere in the Arm action (I think).
• Preliminary ImageCache and Pixmap cache, which (as far as I can tell) works like Motif's. The label pixmap code now uses XCopyArea again, so you can get into problems with pixmaps of different depths than the widget's window. This behavior exists in Motif as well, so it's not a Lesstif bug.
• Atom Manager now does client side caching of atoms.
• New testcases for Xmos (contributed by Mitch Miers) and for the ImageCache routines. Hey, on my Indy, testXm/imagecache/test1 looks exactly the same under Motif and lesstif. There still some problems with traversal (like, it isn't there) and redrawing on expose events, but initially it looks identical :)
• A new resource converter for XmFontList's is in, so you can specify fontlists in resource files. Note: I've only tried this for single entry fontlists, without tags. More testing is necessary here..

Release Aug14-1709

• Sheesh. I was in a hurry this morning to get the new release out and got bit by RCS again. I've modified my distribution script so that it now checks everything in before tarring it up.
• Also, I've included the latest Shadow.c patch from Jeremy Allison. Thanks Jeremy!

Release Aug14-1051

• First off, I've moved back to school for the semester -- starts in two weeks. Much of the work I did this summer on a linux box, displaying to an HP X terminal doesn't work now -- going from an HP735 to an Indy :( It seems to be focused mainly in the RowColumn widget. I'll fix this for the next release, but for now, it seems to be pretty broken.
• Included all the patches (I hope) sent to me since the last release, including those from the Pixel Police (tm) :)
• TextFields and Text widgets should be working better thanks to Danny, Mitch, myself and others. For one thing, nasty unterminated strings should not be present anymore. Also, the handling of the initial size of text fields has been fixed.
• The "input" resource on VendorShells is fixed so that LessTif programs will by default accept the keyboard focus. Now you can actually type :)
• Traversal is beginning to work. For now, the behavior is limitted to that of EXCLUSIVE tab groups (meaning that the keys move you around in the order of child insertion, not by screen layout. This should be easy to add, but it'll be dependant on the manager widget type (I think). For an example, check out testXm/textf/test2.c. Run the program, hit the down arrow in the window, and hit return. This should activate the XmNactivateCallback for the pushbutton widget. -- (Actually, this seems to be another piece of code that broke with the move... Your mileage may vary.)
• ToggleButtons seem to be very nearly complete -- nice work guys!

Release Aug07-1618

• This release is nothing more than the Aug07-1158 release with all the gadget header files included. I forgot to check them in to RCS, so they weren't included in the last distribution. -- Chris

Release Aug07-1158

• Selection box, Message box, and File Selection Box updates from Danny Backx and Mitch Miers
• The rest of the gadgets are in, thanks to Mitch Miers.
• Event passing from XmManager to XmGadget is in now. The individual gadgets do not all take advantage of it, though. Take a look at the initialize() and input_dispatch methods of the pushbuttongadget for an example how it might work.
• Integrated the scrollbar fixes contributed by Peter van Helden.
• The virtual key bindings are working now. To get keyboard input for some window managers (like fvwm, mwm seems to be ok), just set the resource "*.input" to True. For example: 'test1 -xrm "*.input: True"' will work. There is an example .motifbind file in this distribution in "example.motifbind". Just move that to ~/.motifbind, and those bindings should work, given that you're not running mwm, or you haven't set the defaultVirtualBindings resource.
• The beginnings of keyboard traversal within manager widgets. Actually, the code properly calls XmProcessTraversal in most cases, but this function only prints out the argument at the moment.
• Beginnings of synthetic resources for resolution independence. Check out the syn_resources in Label.c for an example.
• The whole menu/cascadebutton scheme should be a little more bug-free now.
• New XmCreateSimple* routines contributed by Mitch Miers.
• The RowColumn layout for XmWORK_AREA (at least) is broken for the moment. I'll get to this next week.
• I've taken the liberty of once again reorganizing the test trees. Now, each directory has in it files named "test1", "test2", etc. When contributing test cases, which are desparately needed right now, focus on a particular feature of the widget, and write a concise test of that feature.
• Hopefully I haven't missed anything. Enjoy this new release -- The LessTif developers.

Release Jul16-2340

• Many, many updates from Danny Backx (who seems to be the only one of us with much time this summer :)
• Made ArrowButton descendant of Primitive, instead of Label.
• Compilation should work now on SunOS 5.4 (no testing done though). I've built LessTif on a sparc 5 I've got access to at work, without a hitch.
• Scale widget is in (Finally). Actually, this should have been in for some time now, except I lost Paul's email that contained it. Thanks Paul.
• FYI - LessTif was featured in the August issue of Unix Review Guess some people actually like the idea of a free Motif (nah... can't be :)
• Administrativia - Releases will now be made weekly, either sometime Sunday night or early Monday morning (depending on how much is going on at the time.) I'll try to follow this religiously, but I may slip up every now and then (I'll have a really good excuse, though.)

Release Jul09-2314

• Too much to really speak of... sorry for the delay in the release. I did not (and still don't) have reliable access to an X display for testing purposes. This will change in the following week, but testing for this release is extremely important. Please email all bug reports to toshok@cs.uidaho.edu. Thanks.

Release May25-0249

• New _XmOS functions, and stubs for the internal _XmString functions, although there is no "internal" representation yet.
• Updated instance variables for primitive widgets
• Cleaned up the shadow drawing routines.
• Making better use of ActionProcs.
• Got Label Gadgets working finally -- others should move along soon.
• Fixed default procs so they work with gadgets as well as widgets.
• Menu stuff is working a little better now.. still no traversal, but the MegaButton widget now works :)
• Bernd Wiserner wins the award for most contributions in a single day. He contributed a new suite of Imakefiles, which allow shared libraries, as well as the XmUpdateDisplay function and
• Fixed incorrect default size for separators. Now menus look quite a bit better.
• Did a lot of work with the label. Now uses the TextRect correctly (I hope).
• Shouldn't see any more SIGSEGV's with pulldown menus.
• The scrollbar, my bad habit, is now drawing better, but is still broken.
• Fixed many problems.
• Not all the bug reports for the last ROTD have been fixed yet, but I'm working on it :)

Release May10-0051

• Changed the test Imakefiles so that they don't build the Motif executables by default.
• Added Paul's shared library snippet to the Imakefiles
• Restructure directories. Hopefully, when the source starts getting really big, it'll be easier to find stuff this way.
• Label and RowColumn query_qeometry method is working better.
• Form widget is coming along (thanks Danny Backx!)
• New version of the List widget (Thanks Jim!)
• Basic expose method for TextFields. When I get time, I'll probably hack up Matt's Text Widget to make the TextField, unless he beats me to it :)

• From Jim Hunt - List Widget draws correctly, methods 95% written, actions started
• Added most of the XmColorProc stuff.
• New XmAll.h header -- thanks Paul.
• New Text Widget, from Matt Crosby.
• Moved functions around, and added new files, more in keeping with the OSF's source layout (from information gleened from Xm/XmP.h)
• Public and Private Stubs for
  • The Pixmap stuff
  • Gadgets utilities
  • Traversal
  • XmCreateVaSimple* calls
• Big bug fix in FontList.c -- XmFontListAppendEntry thanks to all that reported it.
• Currently XmScrolledWindowWidgets are broken. They'll be fixed in the next ROTD (I hope :)
• Most widget subclasses and programs compile now. They are still in the hopelessly broken phase, but they compile :)

• Multiline and multifont labels now work.
• Gadgets are there (well, they just #include the widget headers and #define some things).
• PhaserChess actually works now. I actually made some small changes to the PhaserChess source to get it to work, but I started with an unadulterated tree a few days ago, and it worked.
• ScrolledWindows work now -- at least with the scrolling policy set to XmAPPLICATION_DEFINED and the scroll bar placement set to XmBOTTOM_RIGHT.
• Harald Albrecht's ComboBox widget, which XWord makes use of, compiles now. It has problems running, since the list widget and text field widgets don't quite work yet, but this is a pretty big step, since it's a subclass of Motif widgets.
• XWord compiles now. Don't take this news as more than it really is. It doesn't even come close to running. But it will :)

• C++ safe header files (extern "C" { .. }).
• Initial XmFormWidget work. Should work if you only use XmATTACH_FORM or XmATTACH_WIDGET. It uses an interative layout algorithm, so I assume it's much the same as OSF's (since I've seen errors about bailing out after 10000 iterations in some of my broken Motif code.)
• Labels are very nearly complete. Paul Hoad contributed pixmap support for them, and I've just completed (I hope) the set_values method. The actions need to be done, but that's about it.
• Jim Hunt contributed a new version of the List widget.
• VendorShells are actually working now, so the Virtual Binding and Traversal stuff can now move forward, and some of the default resource procedures can be written now.
• XmStrings (via XmStringCreateLtoR can now be used with multiple lines.
• Menu fixes -- they're working better, but still not quite right (i.e. no pointer or keyboard grabs or traversal).
• PhaserChess is actually playable now -- try it out.

• MenuBars are very close to working. This includes the CascadeButton stuff, MenuShell stuff, and the RowColumn stuff.
• RowColumns in general work a lot better than before. They actually make use of the RepType facilities now, so you can specify packing resources (for example) in resource files.
• PhaserChess (another hungry product) compiles and links with LessTif now, but it still doesn't work properly yet -- there are problems in some of the set_values code and the Text widget isn't functioning properly yet.
• Mosaic 2.5b4 very nearly compiles -- problems with gadgets not being there yet.
• If you noticed from above, I've removed the line about not looking at the Motif headers. This is do to the fact that, while trying to get Mosaic and moxftp to compile, I discovered that some people make frequent use of private instance variables and undocumented Motif functions. I've therefore changed most of the widgets (managers mostly) to use the Motif 1.2 naming conventions. The primitives will come along eventually.