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Motif 2.3.4
Release Notes
The Open Group
and
Integrated Computer Solutions
This document provides Release Notes for the release of Motif 2.3.4.
This contains information on what is new in Motif 2.3.4.
Please see the COPYING file included with this release.
Introduction
This document and accompanying text files contain important information.
Please read them carefully before starting the build and
installation procedures.
There are two ways to build Motif from source code: Imake and AutoTools.
If you are using Imake, please read INSTALL.imake for notes on how to build
and install this product using Imake. This method is deprecated due to
a lack of support. Users wishing to apply/test and patch the Imake system
should join the development mailing list; all contributions are welcome.
Please see the file INSTALL.configure on how to build and install this product
using the autoconf tools. This method is now fully supported and
is the recommended build method.
1. What is Motif 2.3.4
Motif is a freely available source code distribution for the
Motif user interface component toolkit. Motif is built on top of the
standard X Toolkit(Xt) and X11 libraries.
1.1. Overview of Motif
Motif 2.3.4 is an updated version of Motif 2.3.
Any applications built against a previous 2.x release of Motif will be
binary compatible with this release.
Pre-compiled versions are available for download at the ICS MotifZone:
After downloading this source distribution, it will need to be unpacked
and compiled. The distribution contains the following items:
* libXm source code and include files
* Motif reference documentation (man pages)
* Utility libraries
* Demo programs
2. What is new in Motif 2.3.4
This is a bug fix release.
* Fixed bug #1565 (The active window changes to inactive when the drop down
list is clicked)
* Implemented feature request #1300 (Keypad arrows don't work)
* Fixed bug #1496 (Version 2.3.2 won't compile if configured
enable-message-catalog)
* Dropped fix #1359 (File dialog filter problem with * or [ in directory)
* Fixed bug #1530 (SimpleSpinBox doesn't return correct values for child on
some platforms)
* Fixed bug #1272 (Application goes into infinite loop in TraversalI.c:Sort())
* Fixed bug #1529 (Copy/paste problem with Clipboard)
* Fixed bug #1536 (Performance issue: XmListSetPos() is very very slow)
* Fixed bug #1501 (XmText widget sensitive/unsensitive is visibly same
at startup)
* Refixed bug #1381 (Sensitivity invisible with antialiased fonts)
* Fixed bug #1510 (Input methods do not work with XFT fonts)
* Fixed bug #1500 (XmPushButton with grayscale pixmap is not changed visibly
when it's sensitivity is changed)
* Fixed bug #1540 (XpmCreateBufferFromPixmap function doesn't work properly)
* Fixed bug #1505 (Some problems with new insensitive code for label pixmaps)
* Fixed bug #1534 (im_widget double-free issue)
* Fixed bug #1535 (Destroying a torn-off menu with a submenu mapped causes
a crash)
* Fixed bug #1532 (Incorrect handling of clip areas for a string (XmString.c))
* Fixed bug #1531 (Using DataField widget with XFT font causes an X Error)
* Fixed bug #1519 (XmSpinBoxValidatePosition does not properly check
XmNincrementValue)
* Added missing #ifdef USE_XFT directive to the patch #1521
* Fixed bug #1488 (XmStringDraw clip not honored)
* Fixed bug #1479 (Compiling libUil fails on mac OS X 10.5)
* Fixed bug #1528 (Scale widget has some Geometry issues)
* Fixed bug #1518 (gcc check in configure script does not use $CC)
* Fixed misspellings in the manpage
* Fixed bug #1504 (Changing sensitivity on a PushButton with Pixmap
causes recomputeSize)
* Fixed bug #1516 (Can receive X error setting pixmaps to
XmUNSPECIFIED_PIXMAP on PushButton)
* Fixed bug #1503 (XmNtabBackground resource is not working properly
in XmTabStack widget)
* Fixed bug #1512 (Small configure portability fix)
* Fixed bug #1523 (Check a return value of XmCvtXmStringToCT before
use in strlen)
* Refixed bug #1473 (When we set XmNvisibleItemCount resource available in
XmComboBox, the widget displays the wrong number of items)
* Fixed bug #1521 (LabelGadget draws the text over border of its parent)
* Fixed in order to provide compatibility with libpng14, backwards
compatible with libpng12
* Fixed dependencies in order to allow build with "make -j"
* Fixed bug #1509 (background pixmap not fully displayed)
* Fixed bug #1517 (LabelGadget draws over parent window with
the background color)
* Fixed bug #1507 (LDFLAGS not respected for building libXm
and libMrm libraries)
* Fixed bug #1511 (CheckBook program from EditTable samples crashes
with Motif since 2.3.0 release.)
* Fixed bug #1495 (mwm's icon box has graphics corruption)
* Fixed in order to provide PRINTING_SUPPORTED and USE_XFT
macro definitions in Xm.h
* Fixed in order to allow build without libXp
* Refixed bug #1321 (Pasting into XmTextField is unreliable)
* Fixed bug #1502 (crash in ToolTipGetData())
* Removed xmPanedWindowWidgetClass definition
* Fixed bug #1474 (Incrementation of XmNvisibleItemCount value does not work
properly in XmComboBox)
3. Build Systems
Motif 2.3.4 was built and tested on the following systems:
* Fedora 15 x86_64
* Solaris 10 sparc
In all cases, the compiler originally provided with the OS was used.
3.1. OS Support
The following platforms are supported operating systems:
* Linux 2.6
* Solaris 10
4. Filing Bug Reports
If you find a reproducible bug in any of the Motif libraries or code,
or an error in the documentation, please reference the BUGREPORT file
and/or submit a bug report online at:
The status of submitted bugs is maintained there.
5. Documentation
For postscript and PDF documentation (users guides and reference
manuals), see the URL:
http://www.opengroup.org/openmotif/docs/
6. Compatibility Notice
Motif 2.3.x is binary compatible with Motif 2.2.x.
Applications built against Motif 2.2 should work with Motif 2.3.x
without having to recompile it.
Motif 2.3.x is not binary compatible with Motif 2.1.30.
Applications built against Motif 2.1.30 will need to be recompiled
with the Motif 2.2+ header files.
7. Change Log
2.3.4 October 2012
This Release
2.3.3 March 2010
* Fixed bug #1195 (Making on FreeBSD with non GNU make)
* Refixed bug #1388 (SEGV error moving mouse over window related
to XmToolTipGetLabel)
* Fixed bug #1489 (Paned.h is not included by XmAll.h)
* Fixed bug #1486 (Tooltip in DropDown widget makes X hang up)
* Dropped fix #1476 (PanedWindow orientation error)
* Fixed bug #1320 (Resizing a scrolled text widget can be very, very slow)
* Fixed bug #1449 (Uninitalised memory access with XFT fonts)
* Fixed bug #1418 (Add file with instructions how to build from CVS)
* Refixed bug #1381 (Sensitivity invisible with antialiased fonts)
* Fixed bug #1484 (Warning on XmRlabelType when I put a pixmap
and a value "top" on XmNPixmapPlacement)
* Fixed bug #1475 (autoconf warning "X11/Xmu/Editres.h header present
but cannot be compiled")
* Fixed bug #1426 (Make location of system.mwmrc configurable)
* Fixed bug #1451 (XmStringDrawImage works incorrectly with XFT)
* Fixed bug #1453 (MultiList not displayed properly)
* Fixed bug #1412 (An insensitive popup menu parent lead to a display-freezing)
* Fixed bug #345 (Motif accelerators XmNaccelerator do not work
with CapsLock/ScrollLock/NumLock modifiers)
* Added splint checking and splint target
* Fixed bug #1299 (XmForm erroneously finds "Circular dependency"
if widgets are inter-attachmed in vertical/horizontal directions)
2.3.2 March 2009
* Fixed bug #1473 (When we set XmNvisibleItemCount resource available in
XmComboBox, the widget displays the wrong number of items)
* Added missing 'O' character to UTF8_SUPPORTED macro
* Fixed bug #1476 (PanedWindow orientation error)
* Fixed bug #1277 (paned widget does not work under Fedora Core 2
with motif 2.2.3-4.1)
* Fixed bug #1212 (XmDropSiteRetrieve frees XRectangles before
caller can use them)
* Fixed in order to allow build out of source tree
* Added wml_DEPENDENCIES in tools/wml/Makefile.am
* Added ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS in Makefile.am
2.3.1 September 2008
* Added ${prefix}/share/Xm as possible prefix for demos binaries installation
* Fixed bug #1443 (Build failure on FreeBSD: undefined reference to
`libiconv_open')
* Fixed bug #1427 (_xrm '*.iconPixmap:SDtErrors.l' produces bogus
error messages)
* Refixed bug #1381 (Sensitivity invisible with antialiased fonts)
* Fixed bug #1359 (File dialog filter problem with * or [ in directory)
* Fixed bug #1446 (Arrow button in DropDown widget issue.)
* Fixed bug #1328 (Desktop hang: motif application in XGrabPointer)
* Fixed bug #1425 (Resetting entryParent causes crash)
* Fixed bug #1439 (warnings during compilation in TabBox.c)
* Fixed bug #1420 (DataF.c holds message strings.)
* Fixed bug #1419 (Bindings of DataField defined in DataF.c instead
of TranslNew.c)
* Fixed bug #1431 (motif 2.3 and xorg 7.1.0 64bit problems)
* Fixed bug #1432 (XmContainer incorrect GC allocation)
* Fixed bug #1250 (XmCombo glyph is unexpectedly shifted
when setting XmNvisibleItemCount)
* Fixed bug #1401 (Specifying state pixmaps in Container causes crash)
* Refixed bug #1442 (Crash on Drag'n'Drop)
* Fixed bug #1445 (PopupShell is closing on MouseWheel)
* Refixed bug #1371 (XmComboBox problem on FC6)
* Fixed bug #1438 (Missing XSetErrorHandler call in XmXftDrawCreate)
* Fixed bug #1444 (Function _XmXftDrawCreate() does not work correct
with the pixmap)
* Fixed bug #1434 (single character utf8 sting is not displayed)
* Fixed bug #1442 (Crash on Drag'n'Drop)
* Fixed bug #1436 (Definition of GetSameRenditions in XmRenderT.c
needs USE_XFT conditional)
* Fixed bug #1400 (Corrupted per-display font cache)
* Fixed bug #1440 (Tags array size in Label widget is not enough)
* Fixed bug #1429 (Build failure with libtool-2.2.4)
2.3.1 Beta 1 May 2008
* Fixed bug #1410 (setting XmNisHomogeneous to True without setting
XmNentryClass causes sigfault)
* Fixed bug #1402 (Toggle button circular buttons can not mimic modern look)
* Fixed bug #1415 (XFT width calculation problem)
* Fixed bug #1362 (Repeated calls to XmListReplaceItemsPos
cause Error: Cannot perform malloc when using Extended_Select)
* Fixed bug #1365 (Top pixel of German character I with top '^' leaves trails)
* Fixed bug #1414 (XFT support slowness)
* Fixed bug #1351 (Bad dynamic propagation of the sensitive state
to popup menus)
* Fixed bug #1409 (XmTextField sometimes crashes if a string is set
by XtSetValues when XmNmodifyVerifyCallback is set (Only in multibyte locale))
* Fixed bug #1398 (newline not supported in UTF-8 mode)
* Fixed bug #1406 (Insensitive icon on XmPushButton black instead of grayed out)
* Fixed bug #1396 (ScrollBar warning when XmNotebook resized)
* Refixed bug #1388 (SEGV error moving mouse over window
related to XmToolTipGetLabel).
* Fixed bug #1405 (Menus too short if PIXMAP_AND_STRING is used in PushButtons)
* Fixed bug #1404 (PIXMAP_AND_STRING causes crash
in XmPushButtton in OptionMenu)
* Fixed incorrect parenthesis in if statement
* Fixed bug #1371 (XmComboBox problem on FC6)
* Fixed bug #1296 (Drag-and-drop behaves incorrectly
if XtSetLanguageProc() is present)
* Fixed bug #1399 (cut and copy don't work in XmText widget)
* Added /usr as possible prefix for toolkit installation
* Fixed bug #1395 (Wrong label foreground for etched in menus)
* Fixed bug #1392 (The label widgets can have their core class
translations changed).
* Fixed bug #1337 (XmPushButton's ArmAndActivate() has incorrect callback call).
* Fixed bug #1384 (Use of freed storage in XmContainer).
* Fixed bug #1209 (XmTextPaste crashes using XmTextField).
* Fixed bug #1367 (XmText autoShowCursorPosition is not always honoured
when selected text is deleted).
* Fixed bug #1140 (Functions do not check _XmGetWidgetExtData() result).
* Fixed bug #1383 (missing semi-colon at end of sentense).
* Fixed bug #1390 (out of range in array read in ReplaceItem).
* Fixed bug #1388 (SEGV error moving mouse over window related
to XmToolTipGetLabel).
* Fixed bug #1387 (Scale Widget draws value text not centered to slider)
* Fixed bug #1381 (Sensitivity invisible with antialiased fonts)
* Fixed bug #1389 (A middle click on a tab lets nedit segfault)
* Fixed bug #1377 (XmText memory leak in InitializeHook)
* Fixed bug #1385 (core.self of XmMultiList is NULL, but must be
pointer itself.)
* Fixed bug #1380 (Can not set title bar in 2.3)
2.3.0 Beta 2 January 2006
* Fixed vulnerabilities in the libXpm code [CAN-2004-0914
(multiple vulnerabilities) and CAN-2005-0605 (buffer overflow)]
* Got rid of the obsolete tmpnam() call in imake
* Fixed bug #1315 (Division by zero in List widget)
* Fixed bug #1314 (Buffer overflow in MrmItop.c on 64-bit systems)
* Fixed bug #1313 (getsubres.c has fallback resources defined that
aren't terminated with NULL)
* Fixed bug #1304 (Buffer overflow in MrmOpenHierarchy...())
* Fixed bug #1297 (Insensitive XmPIXMAP XmPushButtons are stippled
with the wrong color)
* Fixed bug #1294 (XmFileSelectionBox's XmNdirSpec resource misbehaves
when pathMode is PATH_MODE_RELATIVE)
2.3.0 Beta 1 November 2005
* #1121 (TabBox translation error)
* Removed locking of the clipboard from XmClipboardRetrieveStart()
* #1283 (TabBox translation error)
* #1249 (XmCombo crashes program when resized)
* #1286 (XmDataField error with XmALIGNMENT_END)
* #1211 (Crash on setting XmNlabelPixmap in a ToggleButtonGadget)
* #1264 (Crash in PutDSToStream due to bug in _XmResizeHashTable)
* #1276 (Changing AddMode in XmList selects/deselects items without callback)
* #1196 (Free memory read in XmIm.c/draw_separator())
* #1193 (MWM crashes when restarting by a session manager)
* #1202 (MWM crashes when duplicating a window menu containing f.circle_up)
* #1186 (Invalid replacing XmList selected items)
* #1214 (Cannot set a string to XmTextField with XtSetValues when
XmNmodifyVerifyCallback is set)
* #1279 (XmTextGetSelectionPosition returns incorrect values after
deleting selection)
* #1269 (Popup menus fail on Tarantella/VNC)
* #1262 (Entering Esc key before pulldown menu realized crashes)
* #1268 (XmCvtXmStringToCT improperly handles an empty string)
* Added DataField.h and TabBox.h to XmAll.h
* Added synthetic resolution independent conversion of width/height resources
to ExtendedList for MultiList
* Added wide character string value of search string
to ExtendedListCallbackStruct
* Made DropDown using XmGrabShell instead of TopLevelShell
* #1260 (Option menu changes screen's focus to 'None')
* #1258 (XmDataField: data out-of-bounds bug in df_FindPixelLength)
* #1257 (XmTextField: "Character xxx not supported in font" errors,
bug in multibyte code)
* #1256 (Problem with XmNsingleSelectionCallback in XmExt18List widget)
* Fixed incorrect XmRenderTableToProp() behavior appearing in RendToProp test
* Fixed incorrect XmClipboardCopyByName() behavior appearing in CutPaste2 test
2.3.0 May 2007
a. Several bugs were fixed.
2.2.4 October 2004
a. Fixed vulnerabilities in libXpm code [CVE numbers CAN-2004-0687
(integer overflows) and CAN-2004-0688 (stack overflows)].
b. Fixed compilation under SUSE 9.1.
c. Fixed building procedure under FreeBSD.
d. Fixed building procedure in order to make it usable with
new versions of autoconfig.
2.2.3 August 2002
a. uil support for the new widgets was finished along with
demonstrations in the periodic demo.
b. Several bugs were fixed.
c. Automake building is supported in an object directory.
2.2.1 January 29, 2002
a. The Test directory that contained the automated tests was mentioned
in the Release Notes but absent from the source distribution.
The reference in the Release Notes was removed. The Tests are still
available from the CVS tree.
b. Due to an oversight, imake support was not included in the distribution.
It was added back in this update.
c. If an older version of Motif was installed, the Autoconf build would
pick up the older #include files and fail. The Autoconf configuration
files were updated to use the proper #include files.
d. Formatting errors in doc/man/man3/Makefile.am were corrected.
e. The directory demos/unsupported/motifshell contained no source code but
was mentioned in configure.in. The proper source code was placed
in this directory.
f. ToolTip.c and SlideC.c were included in config.h twice. The extra
reference was removed.
g. The demos for the new widgets were originally placed in the directory
demos/programs/newwidgets. To maintain consistency, they were moved
to demos/programs.
h. The Releases Notes specified the incorrect resource names for enabling
tooltips and specifying the string. These typos were corrected.
i. Compatibility note for user developed widgets was added to
Release Notes.
2.2.0 January 28, 2002
Initial Release