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Article #24046Re: Is there some way to find out what a BadMatch is about?
From: Jeff Hill
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1991 17:31
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1991 17:31
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>> I've got this program which works fine on monochrome screens, but
>> when I try running it on a PseudoColor screen I get BadMatch errors
>> from innocuous calls like XDrawPoint and XFillRectangle. So I was
>> just wondering if anyone has any tricks for finding out what the
>> server thinks doesn't match. I suppose I could run the server in a
>> debugger, but that's a hassle.
>
>Run it under xscope, that's what I find is generally best. That way
>you can see precisely what requests are being sent....
Another (perhaps easier) way to track down what call caused the bad
match is to use XSynchronize(). Many X applications and most Xt
applications have this as a command line option. This works even better
if you have installed your own X exception handler which dumps core.
You can then investigate the cause from a debugger (the default X exception
handler calls exit() leaving no trace of what happened).
Jeff
PS: An example code follows:
#include <Xlib.h>
main()
{
/*
* install an error handler that makes a core file when
* an X Error occurs. This can be usefull if XSync is on.
*
*/
XSetErrorHandler(opi_x_error_handler);
}
/*
*
* X Error Handler
* (with core dump)
*
*/
int x_error_handler(d, pev)
Display *d;
XErrorEvent *pev;
{
char message[256];
XGetErrorText(d, pev->error_code, message, sizeof(message));
printf("Sorry a fatal X Window System error has occured\n");
printf("\tThe cause: %s\n", message);
printf("\tResource Id. %x\n", pev->resourceid);
printf("Core Dumped\n");
abort();
}
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!spool.mu.edu!caen!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!dont-send-mail-to-path-lines From: hill@luke.lanl.GOV (Jeff Hill) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Is there some way to find out what a BadMatch is about? Message-ID: <9106241731.AA20764@luke.lanl.gov> Date: 24 Jun 91 17:31:06 GMT Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background) Organization: The Internet Lines: 53