On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 10:39:09AM -0800, Ted Jirik wrote: > > Stan, > > Remote draw applications are programs which use Foxboro's hilib display > interface calls to manipulate the display surface on a remote screen. The > Integrated Control Configurator is one example. These programs are > holdovers from the AP20/WPXX days when the application could not entirely > reside inside the WP and needed resources on the AP to run properly. They > ran on machines that did not support X so they used Foxboro's own mechanism > to create a client/server session. > > They are still dependent on the Foxboro client/server model unlike most of > the newer programs which came along after the 50 series release. > > The issues I have seen with these types of programs are related to resizing > the window. They do not seem to know how to redraw themselves after a > resize. So, buttons disappear. When they run on a Foxboro workstation > running Open Look, the resize handles are removed from the window frame so > they cannot be resized. When they run on a PC XServer with some other > window manager the resize handles are available and if you change the > window size at all you will have a problem. > > Another issue is save unders and backing store. These must be available in > the XServer or the programs will also have problems with buttons and > dialogs not being redrawn. > > When I first tried GoGlobal it did not support backing store or save unders > (I cannot remember which) as needed by the Foxboro programs. So it had > problems with ICC and the historian configurator. I don't know if it has > been corrected by now. > > I hope that helps. Thanks, it's most helpful! -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html foxboro mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave