SGI and d.mon iris trouble

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?Cosyn?Bart??at?Jan?24??96?09?07?20?am at bnr.ca>
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Cosyn Bart writes:
> 
> > 
> > * Why can't I select "iris" in the x-menu for d.mon, only from the grass sh
ell?
> >     (iris doesn't appear as a choice, only x0, x1 ... x6 or x7)
> 
> xgrass is written for the X-motif environment and as the iris monitor 
> needs the typical DLG-capabilities of Silicon. Its just a question of 
> making xgrass multiplatform!
> 
Not exactly. Xgrass makes Motif calls in order to produce a user interface,
but makes lower level Xlib or Iris graphics calls in order to display to
monitors. Assuming that src/display/devices/IRIS has been compiled, and that
$ARCH/etc/monitorcap contains uncommented entries for IRIS drivers called i0,i1
,
etc, then these need also to be defined in src/xgrass/xclip/d.mon in order to
be accessible from xgrass. My file contains this sort of thing:

    parameter monitor
        description:"Monitor:"
        type:enum:"i0,i1,i2,i3,i4,i5,i6,CELL,x0,x1,x2,x3,x4,x5,x6"
        help:"Select the monitor you wish to manipulate."
        optional:true
        default:"x0"

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