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Title:note 3 has pointer to current kit
Notice:note 3 has pointer to current kit
Moderator:PEACHS::GHEFF
Created:Wed May 29 1991
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:3301
Total number of notes:14905

3254.0. "using synopsys wave form viewer" by NETRIX::" gehly@hpn.lkg.dec.com" (dave gehly) Thu Mar 20 1997 13:51

I have a project team, trying to use excursion on PCs running either 
Win95/NT 3.51/4.0
I understand I somehomw have to invoke the file mwm.exe.  I am not at all
clear on exactly what the best procedure is to this.  The original problem
results from trying to run the wave form viewer from Synopsys, when running
a simulation.  In its basic form, excursion does not allow this wave form
tool to display.  It creats a blank window which looks like a ghost milking
a white cow during a snow storm.  Killing this window requires some major 
effort.

If mwm.exe, which is located under xcursion/xapps/x86, is invoked then
the wave form tool opens up with data but the cursor is a blank white square
with an outline of an arrow.  2 questions:

How do I invoke mwm.exe cleanly from the PC, regardless of which UNIX
host I want to log onto?

How can I get the cursor to change its shape/spots?

(I am running the excursion tool in LKG1 which is subject to kerberos.
This means I need to open a dummy telnet session before invoking the
excursion tool in oreder to wake up the password file so I've told)

Thanks,

Dave Gehly
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3254.1PEACHS::GHEFFGot a head with wingsThu Mar 20 1997 14:2423
    >How do I invoke mwm.exe cleanly from the PC, regardless of which UNIX
    >host I want to log onto?
    
    Here's how I do it.  You can judge if it's clean or not.
    
    1) Set up a new account (mine is named the same as my PC's name) and
    make its "Network Transport" be "Local".
    
    2) Define an application for mwm where the command line is in your
    case something like: c:\xcursion\xapps\x86\mwm.exe.  Point it to the 
    account definition created above.  Select "Run at Server Startup", if
    you plan to run it all the time.  (I don't.)
    
    The only down-side of this is that mwm.exe is a console application and
    so when it runs it puts a console icon on the task bar.
    
    
    Regarding the white arrow cursor, I'm not sure what to suggest at the
    moment other than to have you look in the eXcursion release notes and 
    search for "ZDebugKeys" and "nocursor" and implement that workaround.
    
    
    #Gary 
3254.2cursor contrlNETRIX::"gehly@hpn.lkg.dec.com"dave gehlyThu Mar 20 1997 19:3117
Thanks,

I setup an application to be mwm ,however I pointed it to
d:\xcursion/xapps/x86/mwm.exe.  I installed the tool on my D drive.
The installation put its pointers onto my C drive under win32app.
It created win23app/Xcursion/x86.   xapps did not transfer across
or get pointed to as far as I can tell.


I tried to setup the reigistry to add the ZDebugKeys=noCursor
under the path you suggested.  It not work.  What I see in the registry
entry is something of this form:

<NoName>:REG_SZ:ZDebugKeys=noCursor

Was there a label I was supposed to put in place of the <NoName> tag?
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3254.3PEACHS::GHEFFGot a head with wingsThu Mar 20 1997 20:054
    2.1 ignores the nocursor switch on NT and Win3.1.  3.0, last time I
    checked, honored it under NT.  Which are you running?
    
    #Gary
3254.4win nt versionNETRIX::&quot; gehly@hpn.lkg.dec.com&quot;dave gehlyFri Mar 21 1997 12:586
Gary

I'm running WindowNT 4.0

dave
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3254.5PEACHS::GHEFFGot a head with wingsFri Mar 21 1997 13:184
    If you use eXcursion 2.1 under Windows NT 4, ZDebugKeys=nocursor will
    not work.  Reportedly 3.0 under NT 4 does.
    
    #Gary
3254.6cursorsNETRIX::&quot; GEHLY@.hpn.lkg.dec.com&quot;DAVE GEHLYTue Mar 25 1997 17:1121
Window NT 4.0 with excursion 3.0.
I put ZDebugKeys as "key" and "noCursor" as string value into the registry
file

This brings changes the to a negative image from what is currently displayed.
That is current cursor looks like a white square block with "clear" arrow
pointing
towards upper left corner.  The negative image simply looks like an upper
pointing
white arrow on a clear background.

The problem I have at this point is that some of the internal cursor commands
within the wave form viewing window do not function, so I'll pass this back to

Synopsys.  

Thanks for the assistance with respect to the cursor and mwm.exe file.  It
works
fine when I set it run at server startup.  I don't know if any other programs
require this though.
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3254.7PEACHS::GHEFFGot a head with wingsWed Mar 26 1997 11:4118
    >The problem I have at this point is that some of the internal cursor
    >commands within the wave form viewing window do not function, so I'll
    >pass this back to Synopsys.
    
    Keep in mind that the "nocursor" option tells the X server not to let
    X do *anything* with the pointer image.  So if you're expecting the
    arrow to change to a crosshair, when you move into a drawing area, it
    won't happen, as long as nocursor is set.
    
    >Thanks for the assistance with respect to the cursor and mwm.exe file. 
    >It works fine when I set it run at server startup.  I don't know if any
    >other programs require this though.
    
    Well...Oracle's programs are notorious for running better when mwm is 
    present.  I'm sure I've run across a few from other vendors as well.
    
    #Gary