Re: [Update REQ 5853]: OpenGL port of Geomview

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> I downloaded your OpenGL port and compiled it, but ran into some
> as-yet-unidentifed issues with your code and our HPUX 10.20 operating
> system. Your OGL port having only been run on Irix, and anything
> having to do with HPUX was probably release 9.0.7, this wasn't a big
> surprise to me.

Oh, good, thanks for letting us know what became of this.

Just in case it's a known bug: there's one problem in the core of Geomview which
HP-UX 10.x users (of the plain X version) have reported, which I think has
been fixed since you grabbed your copy.  The bug caused a stdio kludge we used,
which took internal strings and read them as if they were the contents of files,
to fail. Typical symptom, at run time as geomview was starting up:

Error <1>: ApFLoad: file built-in appearance: unknown appearance keyword earance
File: appearance.c, Line: 335

Reading window from "{ size 450 450  resize }": unknown keyword "ze":
> ... { size 450 450  resize } ...
------------^

Does that sound like what you saw?  If so, then for what it's worth we now have
a less-kludgy version which avoids that bug, though I understand it's probably
too late to be of use to you.  If this isn't it, is it easy to describe the
trouble you encountered?

   Stuart Levy, Geometry Center