Things that don't work in Linux - RedHat 9

[Ken Ray]

JR - have you Bugzilla'd these bugs, or checked to see if they are on
Bugzilla already? That is the best way of getting things in front of
RunRev so they can fix them.

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: metacard-bounces at lists.runrev.com 
> [mailto:metacard-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of RCS
> Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 9:41 AM
> To: metacard at lists.runrev.com
> Subject: Things that don't work in Linux - RedHat 9
> 
> 
> Here are a few things that do not work in Linux RedHat 9:
> 
> 'set the BackDrop to 90,80,144'
> This forces the screen to color you want...but in front of 
> everything! In other words, you can't get to your computer 
> anymore (you can't even alt-tab out)!
> 
> - TrueType fonts
> 
> - Xanim (or any video/music playback). Maybe I am not using 
> this correctly? There do not seem to be any instructions on 
> how to use this...
> 
> - You 'always' have a window border no matter what.
> 
> - Hiding/showing a window (or simply re-openning) cause the 
> window to move slightly from it's last position by about 4 
> pixels (down, and to the left)...eventually you wind up off 
> the screen!
> 
> - Setting the loc of a window from a mouseMove 'loop' cause 
> the window to shoot off the screen (bad data I suppose). The 
> same code works in Windows
> (98-XP) and Mac (OS 8-10).
> 
> - Cannot open a datagram socket on a specific port for 
> broadcasting (this may be related to Linux itself though).
> 
> 
> I thought MetaCard was developed in a Linux environment? Is 
> it just RedHat?
> 
> Thanks,
> JR
> 
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