Re: a little more info on new geomview on the Next

[Dennis Roseman <roseman at dimension4.math.uiowa.edu>]

Sucess--of sorts.

After a very frustrating afternoon trying all sorts of complicated  
things with geomview on the NeXT (black machine, 3.0) and dying a  
windowserver death many times, I finally stumbled on a seemingly  
simple example that does it every time.  (At least for me, on my  
machine.) 


Also, I found a "fix" of sorts--at least on this one example--not  
that I have a clue as to what is going on.

(By the way I rebooted the machine just before getting a crash--so  
the problem does not seem to be connected to other processes etc,  as  
I had conjectured)

The offending file is 1ttcg043.4off.slicey06a.off.

If I double click on this icon, I get window server death.

abel 8% pwd
/usr2/roseman/bug
abel 9% ls
1ttcg043.4off.slicey06a       anote
1ttcg043.4off.slicey06a.off   whatisthis.off

HOWEVER, I ran this file through polymerge (see anote) and the  
resulting file whatisthis.off is well-behaved.

To complete the information,  I am using Version 1.4.1 compiled Tue  
Nov 16 16:30:31 .  The .geomview file in my home directory is:

(progn
  (backcolor allcams .8 .7 0.5)
  (bbox-color allgeoms 1 1 0)
  (window default { size 500 500 })
  (emodule-define "warp" "/Max/roseman/gc/geomview/warp.app/warp")
  (emodule-define "pssnap" "/Max/roseman/gc/geomview/pssnap")
  (emodule-define "TopDrawer" "/LocalApps/TopDrawer.app/TopDrawer")
  (normalization World none)
  (load-path (. /roseman/gvcommands /LocalApps/Geomview.app/data/geom  
/Max/roseman/oneturnslices /roseman/gc/4d /roseman/gc/3d))
)

(I don't see anything strange there.)

I haven't tried this on the 3.1 on a white machine.