Re: [foxboro] Hummingbird eXceed on Windows 7

  • From: "Green, Anthony" <Anthony.Green@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 15:56:09 +0000

In my mill we are installing Windows 7 and using Reflection X 14  Issues that 
I'm having are:  mouse is BLUE when inside the window but turns WHITE when you 
place it on the tool or header bar, values on the screens seem to flicker for 
updates.

Thank you,
Anthony Green



-----Original Message-----
From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Terry Doucet
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2012 11:32 AM
To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [foxboro] Hummingbird eXceed on Windows 7

Duc,
I am very old.
Sometimes things work; sometimes they don't.Glad you got it going.
Terry

> From: duc.do@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 11:25:48 -0400
> Subject: Re: [foxboro] Hummingbird eXceed on Windows 7
>
> After more than a week of pounding on the problem on our own, and another 
> week after getting some hints from this list in trying to solve our 
> Hummingbird problem, now, the rest of the story.
>
> Circumstantial evidences point to the Windows 7 personal firewall as the 
> source of our problems so we had to rule it out conclusively. After much 
> groveling with the corporate IT demi-gods they relented and allowed us to 
> completely disable it. Turned out the firewall was not the problem, but it 
> was necessary to prove it conclusively.
>
> Terry Doucet's suggestion of trying HH1011 is a godsend, and a curse!
>
> We applied the suggested changes, and not only that didn't fix our problem on 
> Win 7, it broke what was running fine on Win XP! But the error messages when 
> we tried to run this script file (/usr/fox/bin/VT100.script) slowly point the 
> way to a shell variable being null'ed out by a portion of the fixes.
>
> To make a long story short, of the three modifications recommended by HH1011, 
> only changing `locale_env ...` to the full path `/usr/openwin/bin/locale_env 
> ...` is necessary to fix our problem. The first chunk of codes (8 lines to be 
> inserted after the comment "# If Solaris") broke the script file horribly by 
> exporting an empty DISPLAY shell variable.
>
> I know there cannot be that many installations out there running DM with 
> Solaris boxes anymore, but I want this to be in the archive to help prevent 
> future head-banging against the wall like we did for more than two weeks.
>
> Thanks to all who helped (and all who pitied us in silence).
>
> Duc
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of duc.do@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 1:18 PM
> To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [foxboro] Hummingbird eXceed on Windows 7
>
> Terry,
>
> I've checked out several HHs regarding Hummingbird, but missed this one. I'll
> try the suggested fix. Thanks for the helpful hint. ;-)
>
> (But our problem is really not a lock-up, just that nothing happens upon a
> mouse click save for that message in the message area.)
>
> Regards,
>
> Duc
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Terry Doucet
> Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 12:04 PM
> To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [foxboro] Hummingbird eXceed on Windows 7
>
> Duc,
> Can you check HH1011 to see if that is of any help to you.  I remember issues
> with starting VT100 that may have been fixed with the HH.
> Terry
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