XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-38

XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-38

[Harold L Hunt II]

A new 'test' version has been posted with minor changes to the clipboard
support.

When an unsupported format is copied to the Win32 clipboard, we release 
ownership of our monitored X11 selections if we currently own those 
selections.  This prevents some cases of thinking that you are able to 
paste in X11 but not getting any data returned when you attempt to paste.

I believe that the major enhancements to the clipboard support are now 
complete and stable.  However, lots of messages are going to be logged 
to XWin.log.  Please send in test results and bzip2'd copies of XWin.log 
files that show lots of log messages.  I will start disabling 
unimportant log messages and mark make a new release that will become 
the new 'curr' release if no major problems are found.

Thanks for testing,

Harold

XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-38 Request for Test Results

[Harold L Hunt II]

Please send in those test results for the XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-38 
clipboard functionality as soon as possible.  I want positive results 
(at least five of them) as well as negative.  Use the format below for 
your test results if you find it useful:

OS: Windows 95
     Windows 98
     Windows Me
     Windows NT 4.0
     Windows 2000
     Windows XP
     Windows Server 2003

Language: English, German, Japanese, French, etc.

Win32->X11 Copy and Paste: Worked, Did Not Work

X11->Win32 Copy and Paste: Worked, Did Not Work

Xdmcp: Worked, Did Not Work, Did Not Try


Thanks for testing!

Harold

Re: XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-38 Request for Test Results

[Walter Haidinger]

On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Harold L Hunt II wrote:

> Please send in those test results for the XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-38 
> clipboard functionality as soon as possible.  I want positive results 
> (at least five of them) as well as negative.  Use the format below for 
> your test results if you find it useful:

Well, here's a negative: :-(

OS: Windows XP with SP1 and TweakUI
Language: German
Win32->X11 Copy and Paste: Did Not Work
X11->Win32 Copy and Paste: Did Not Work
Xdmcp: Did Not Try

This is odd, I remember that the clipboard used to work...

I run this to finally start the X-Server (from startxwin.bat):
start XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -xf86config 
  C:\cygwin\etc\X11\XF86Config

Walter

Re: XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-38 Request for Test Results

[Harold L Hunt II]

Walter,

Can you send in your /tmp/XWin.log from a time when this fails?

Harold

Walter Haidinger wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
> 
> 
>>Please send in those test results for the XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-38 
>>clipboard functionality as soon as possible.  I want positive results 
>>(at least five of them) as well as negative.  Use the format below for 
>>your test results if you find it useful:
> 
> 
> Well, here's a negative: :-(
> 
> OS: Windows XP with SP1 and TweakUI
> Language: German
> Win32->X11 Copy and Paste: Did Not Work
> X11->Win32 Copy and Paste: Did Not Work
> Xdmcp: Did Not Try
> 
> This is odd, I remember that the clipboard used to work...
> 
> I run this to finally start the X-Server (from startxwin.bat):
> start XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -xf86config 
>   C:\cygwin\etc\X11\XF86Config
> 
> Walter
> 

Re: XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-38 Request for Test Results

[Dr. Volker Zell]

>>>>> "Harold" == Harold L Hunt writes:

    Harold> Please send in those test results for the XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-38
    Harold> clipboard functionality as soon as possible.  I want positive results
    Harold> (at least five of them) as well as negative.  Use the format below for
    Harold> your test results if you find it useful:

    Windows 2000
    Language: English
    Win32-> X11 Copy and Paste: Worked
    X11-> Win32 Copy and Paste: Worked
    Xdmcp: Did Not Try

Ciao
  Volker

Re: XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-38 Request for Test Results

[Walter Haidinger]

On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Harold L Hunt II wrote:

> Walter,
> 
> Can you send in your /tmp/XWin.log from a time when this fails?

There is just one (german) message indicating that the handle is invalid 
(ungültig in German):
winTopLevelWindowProc - BitBlt failed: Das Handle ist ungültig

Please note that it is like if X11 and Win32 clipboards are totally
distinct, i.e. in can cut&paste X11<->X11 windows but not to or from Win32
windows.

Walter

Re: XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-38 Request for Test Results

[Harold L Hunt II]

Walter,

I have not localized the error messages to German.  Did you translate 
that yourself or are you running some other person's compilation of 
XWin.exe?

If you did the translation yourself, please send in /tmp/XWin.log.  I 
need to see what messages are missing, not just what is there.

Harold

Walter Haidinger wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
> 
> 
>>Walter,
>>
>>Can you send in your /tmp/XWin.log from a time when this fails?
> 
> 
> There is just one (german) message indicating that the handle is invalid 
> (ungültig in German):
> winTopLevelWindowProc - BitBlt failed: Das Handle ist ungültig
> 
> Please note that it is like if X11 and Win32 clipboards are totally
> distinct, i.e. in can cut&paste X11<->X11 windows but not to or from Win32
> windows.
> 
> Walter
> 

Re: XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-38 Request for Test Results

[Walter Haidinger]

On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Harold L Hunt II wrote:

> Walter,
> 
> I have not localized the error messages to German.  Did you translate 
> that yourself or are you running some other person's compilation of 
> XWin.exe?

No, I've _not_ done any localization - I've copied the line "as is" and
I've downloaded -38 using setup.exe from mirror ftp.univie.ac.at today.

Please note that the error message is mixed english/german. Perhaps the
trailing part originates from German Windows XP? Just a guess, though.

In fact, there is no other errline but the one below after the X-Server 
logs that it has started up:
...
WinInitMultiWindowWM - XOpenDisplay () returned and successfully opened
the display.
winTopLevelWindowProc - BitBlt failed: Das Handle ist ungültig

winTopLevelWindowProc - BitBlt failed: Das Handle ist ungültig

winTopLevelWindowProc - BitBlt failed: Das Handle ist ungültig
...

Walter
 

Re: XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-38 Request for Test Results

[Benjamin Riefenstahl]

Hi Harold,


  OS:
    Windows 2000, SP4

  Language:
    English, German keyboard

  Win32->X11 Copy and Paste, X11->Win32 Copy and Paste: 
    Latin-1 works

    Non-Latin-1 (Unicode) doesn't work (doesn't work with xwinclip
    either, though)

  Xdmcp: 
    Did Not Try


benny

Re: XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-38 Request for Test Results

[Harold L Hunt II]

Walter,

Walter Haidinger wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
> 
> 
>>Walter,
>>
>>I have not localized the error messages to German.  Did you translate 
>>that yourself or are you running some other person's compilation of 
>>XWin.exe?
> 
> 
> No, I've _not_ done any localization - I've copied the line "as is" and
> I've downloaded -38 using setup.exe from mirror ftp.univie.ac.at today.
> 
> Please note that the error message is mixed english/german. Perhaps the
> trailing part originates from German Windows XP? Just a guess, though.

Oops, you are right.  We query Win32 for the error message; that part is 
in German.

> In fact, there is no other errline but the one below after the X-Server 
> logs that it has started up:

I still need to see the XWin.log to make sure that the clipboard client 
started properly.  I am waiting to release until I solve your problem, 
so please send it soon.

Harold

Re: XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-38 Request for Test Results

[Benjamin Riefenstahl]

Hi Harold, Walter,


> Walter Haidinger wrote:
>> winTopLevelWindowProc - BitBlt failed: Das Handle ist ungültig

Harold L Hunt II <huntharo@msu.edu> writes:
> I have not localized the error messages to German.

That part of the error message looks like it was converted from a
Windows error code with the FormatMessage API.  FormatMessage is
localized (for those kind of log messages it's a good idea to output
the original error number, too).

This one is probably ERROR_INVALID_HANDLE (6).  Walter, you could
could verify this by running "net helpmsg 6" in a DOS box and see if
that gives the same text.


benny

Re: XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-38 Request for Test Results

[Kensuke Matsuzaki]

Walter and Harold,

FormatMessage translates.

MAKELANGID(LANG_NEUTRAL, SUBLANG_DEFAULT)
should be 
MAKELANGID(LANG_ENGLISH,SUBLANG_ENGLISH_US)
by the thought of sending log. I thought it is better for user to read.

--
Kensuke Matsuzaki
mailto:zakki@peppermint.jp
http://peppermint.jp

Re: XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-38 Request for Test Results

[Walter Haidinger]

On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Harold L Hunt II wrote:

> I still need to see the XWin.log to make sure that the clipboard client 
> started properly.  I am waiting to release until I solve your problem, 
> so please send it soon.

Just sent it to your private address!
Why didn't you say that I'd post it anyways?

Walter

Re: XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-38 Request for Test Results

[Walter Haidinger]

On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Benjamin Riefenstahl wrote:

> This one is probably ERROR_INVALID_HANDLE (6).  Walter, you could
> could verify this by running "net helpmsg 6" in a DOS box and see if
> that gives the same text.

It says "The handle is invalid". That is, same error message but in 
English this time. Odd.

Walter