RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Offscreen and No DirectInput Test 7

["Suhaib Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

> 
> Lastly the question. On both machines I got the line:
> 
> error opening security policy file 
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy
> 
> I did a tar -tvf | grep -i SecurityPolicy on all the tar 
> files from the 
> xfree/xc-4-binaries and could not find it. It is in the 
> binary tar ball 
> for the VNC based Xserver. Is this an oversight? 


You can create your own, copy from a Linux box, or copy from VNC tar ball
to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy.

It just a warning, not an error.

Suhaib

> 
> Joel
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Harold@compasstechnologies.com
> > [mailto:Harold@compasstechnologies.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 12:39 AM
> > To: cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com
> > Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Offscreen and No DirectInput Test 7
> > 
> > 
> > Changes:
> > 1)  Removed DDLOCK_NOSYSLOCK flag in call to 
> > IDirectDrawSurface_Lock; John
> > Fortin said that flag doesn't exist in DirectX 3... I can't find the
> > documentation to back that up, but I'll go with it.  Testers 
> > with failures
> > in IDirectDrawSurface_Lock() seem to all be running Windows 
> > NT 4.0 SP3+; so,
> > John is probably right that the said flag is not supported in 
> > DirectX 3.
> > Any Windows 98 testers out there please check in if the 
> > latest release works
> > for you.
> > 
> > Known Issues:
> > 1)  Don't move the window :)
> > 
> > 2)  Be careful when moving focus to and away from the window; 
> > the best bet
> > is to minimize the window, rather than just clicking on another app
> > 
> > 3)  Not feature complete - the only goal of the current 
> > testing is to get an
> > image from the X server to appear on every tester's machine
> > 
> > Updates in this test release were constrained to xf_dx.dll, 
> so, if you
> > already have the Test 3, or greater, full package
> > (OverlayAndNoDITest.tar.bz2) installed, you can just download 
> > the xf_dx.dll
> > package; otherwise, download the full Test 7 package.
> > 
> > Full Test 7 Package:
> > http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/OverlayAndNoDITest.tar.bz2 (1.7 MB)
> > Test 7 xf_dx.dll Package:
> > http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xf_dx.dll.tar.bz2 (43 kB)
> > 
> > 
> > Sources:
> > You can download the xf_dx.dll test 7 source if you have 
> > Visual C++ 6 and
> > you feel like poking around:
> > http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xf_dx-src.zip (14 kB)
> > 
> > 
> > Screenshots, 1024x768:
> > 1)  A local xterm:
> > http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/CygwinXFree86-ScreenShot-xterm.pn
> g (160 kB)
> 
> 2)  Remote gftp running on a GNU/Linux host with Gnome installed:
> http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/CygwinXFree86-ScreenShot-gftp.png
 (153 kB)

Good luck, enjoy, and thanks for testing,

Harold