Re: .xpm ants and batchmode

[Sven N. Thommesen]

At 03:02 PM 9/29/97 -0700, Benedikt wrote:
>
>
>Sven N. Thommesen wrote:
>
>> I've discovered that if one tries to emulate the version of Heatbugs that
>> uses the .xpm bitmaps to display the ants, the app will not run in
>> -batchmode :-(
>> (Nor will heatbugs itself ...)
>>

<snip>

>I didn't quite understand your message. What do you mean by "emulate"
>Heatbugs? You also seemed to imply that Heatbugs won't run in batchmode
>period (I haven't installed 1.0.3 so I haven't checked this myself).
>
>It strikes me as odd that Heatbugs with pixmaps doesn't run in batchmode,
>since as we know HeatbugBatchSwarm doesn't initialize the Raster output and
>shouldn't ask the bugs to draw themselves, regardless of whether the pixmap
>or the regular method is being used.
>

Well, whatever it is that we 'know', Heatbugs-with-pixmaps will not run in
batchmode under 1.0.3. Try it yourself! The error message is: 

        error: Tcl (instance)
        Tcl does not recognize mainWindow
        IOT trap/Abort (core dumped)

Grrr.

Sven

>Regards,
>-Benedikt
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