Greetings.

I'm William Hayden, the author of POV-Motif.  The problems you describe
below seem to be fairly common for certain versions of LINUX, and non
existant for others.  My Slackware distribution falls into the latter
category, so this is a tough problem for me to track down.  I do have a
workaround for it though.  Version 1.0.1 POV-Motif has a way to turn the
tool tips off.  The tool tips are little popup windows that tell what
the buttons do.  When these guys fail to load the font
schoolbook-bold-r-normal-*-12-*, they cause POV-Motif to bomb.  The
tooltips aren't something I wrote, they're a freeware library called
LiteClue that I downloaded.  I have corresponded with the author of the
package, and he and I are both puzzled as to why 1) the fonts fail to
load and 2) why a crash is the result when they fail to load.  It is
standard X code, known to work on Solaris, SunOs Hp/UX, IRIX,
AIX.......  Probably a LOT more than you wanted to know about the
problem.

To turn the tool tips off use the menu Options->Set POV-Motif
Configuration...

Set the tool tips toggle button to off.  There is no need to restart
POV-Motif, and the setting is persistant.  In a future version of
POV-Motif, with the tool tips off, I'll put help text in the status text
window at the bottom of the application.

You also mention that the buttons don't have the proper pixmaps unless
you run as root.  This is probably due to the resource file not being
where POV-Motif can find it.  Visit the POV-Motif home page again and
look at the FAQ section for help with setting this up properly.  Most
X/Motif applications have this issue during setup, so this is a failry
common problem.


thanks for your interest in POV-Motif.  Any comments/suggestions for
version 1.1 would be greatly appreciated.

Regards, 


Michael Hohensee wrote:
> 
> thomas.harms wrote:
> >
> > I tried POV-Motif on my Linux-Machine (SuSe LINUX 5.0) but first of all
> > I get the following warnings :
> >
> > Warning: locale not supported by C library, locale unchanged
> > Warning: Cannot convert string "-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-*--10-*" to
> > type FontSet
> > Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset
> > Warning: Cannot convert string "-adobe-new century
> > schoolbook-bold-r-normal-*-12-*" to type FontSet
> > Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset
> > Segmentation fault
> >
> > and then it runs for a short time, sometimes a little bit longer,
> > sometimes it is possible to render a pictures.
> > But I don't have any ICONs in the menue. Accept when I start the
> > programm as root.
> > The environment variables : LIBHELPPATH, XFILESEARCHPATH
> 
> I get the same thing.  I've found a way to keep it from core-dumping,
> however.  I think you'll find that it core-dumps whenever you leave the
> cursor on top of one of the menu bar buttons (i.e. the "new" button, the
> "save" button, the "render" button, etc).  I think that the fault must
> be caused whenever the program tries to generate little help-windows on
> those buttons. (you know, the way netscape and many other programs do if
> you hold the cursor over a button for a second or two?)
> 
> The solution is:  don't leave the cursor hanging about the buttons. :)
> 
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William D. Hayden

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