Editimage annotate feature has lost its mind

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From: Wallace Bow
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 17:27

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Patch 5 for Khoros has introduced an interesting bug.  The annotate facility
in editimage dies with a "Major X error" when attempting to annotate an
image.  This bogosity occurs ONLY on 24 bit/pixel frame buffers.

When annotating the image "by mouse," editimage blows up as soon an you drag
the mouse into any region on the image.   The following post mortem is also
given:

X Error of failed request:  BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
  Major opcode of failed request:  62 (X_CopyArea)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  0
  Resource id in failed request:  0x0
  Serial number of failed request:  2666
  Current serial number in output stream:  2667
Major X error encountered for display 'debbie_gibson:0.0'! Unable to recover.

Annotation "by keyboard" causes the application to go down in flames as
soon as the "CREATE TEXT" button is pressed.

This problem occurs on Sun's GS (24 bit/pixel) board running Open Windows
as well as a VITEC RasterFlex-32 (also 24 b/p) running X11R4.  The problem
did NOT occur on an Sun with a GX (8 bit/pixel) board.  Unfortunately, we
were unable to test any other 24 bit/pixel platforms.

This bug was not in editimage with Khoros patchlevel 4.  Interestingly,
annotate works just fine in xprism2 and the other applications that support
it.

-- 
Wallace J. Bow Jr., wjbow@ceratiidae.cs.sandia.gov, (505) 844-5744

"You really don't even think about it until the parachute opens, then you say,
 'Hey!  I'm going 160 miles per hour!'"		-Me

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From: wjbow@math.ksu.edu (Wallace Bow)
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Subject: Editimage annotate feature has lost its mind
Date: 16 Dec 1992 11:27:12 -0600
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