Re: xaw3d+arrowscrollbars option
On Sun, 27 Oct 1996 11:36:52 +0100 joost witteveen
(joost@rulcmc.leidenuniv.nl) wrote:
> Lately, I've recieved tons of requests for the
> arrow scrollbars to be added to xaw3d.
> The stream of mailes wasn't as big/urgent as when
> I briefly enabled the scrollbars back in (I think) march,
> and I got a few mails about xterm not working any more,
> but still, al lot of requests.
[snip]
> As there are about 24 references to ARROW_SCROLLBAR in the
> source, I'm not going to turn the compile-time option into
> a run-time option (I'm going to make too many errors while doing that),
> so, the only other thing I could think of is splitting libXaw3d into
> a non-ARROW_SCROLLBAR-dependant part (around 300k), and two
> ARROW_SCROLLBAR dependant part (both around 12k), one compiled
> with -DARROW_SCROLLBAR, and one without. Then, the user would be
> able to do at any time he likes
> to enable the arrow-scrollbars
> cd /usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw3d
> ln -sf libXaw3d-scroll-arr.so.6.1 libXaw3d-scroll.so
> or to disable them
> ln -sf libXaw3d-scroll.so.6.1 libXaw3d-scroll.so
Wouldn't that break a lot of Makefiles around here by having to link to both Xaw3d and Xaw3d-scroll ? And what about drop-in compatibility with with Xaw ?
Phil.
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