Dtterm and unusual icons

[Charles Lindsey]

Using solaris 10 on a sparc and trying to run an applications within
dtterm, hence the need to have a special icon to make it easily recognized
when iconized.

So if I write

dtterm -xrm '*iconPixmap:SDtErrors.l'

it says

Warning: Cannot convert string "SDtErrors.l" to type Pixmap
Warning: Cannot convert string "SDtErrors.l" to type Pixmap

But if I then iconize the dtterm window, lo and behold it is indeed using
the SDtErrors pixmap (which it found, according to truss, in
/usr/dt/appconfig/icons/C/SDtErrors.l.pm).

So why is that?

Some poking around with DBX showed that it gets into CvtStringToPixmap,
and while still within the saem call of that routine it first calls
GetPixmap (which indeed finds the right file as mentioned) and after that
it calls XtDisplayConversionWarning, which prints on stderr the warning
you see (I think the second was when it was repeating the whole thing
when building the widget for the icon itself).

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[Thomas Dickey]

In comp.unix.solaris Charles Lindsey <c...@clerew.man.ac.uk> wrote:
> dtterm -xrm '*iconPixmap:SDtErrors.l'
...

> Warning: Cannot convert string "SDtErrors.l" to type Pixmap
> Warning: Cannot convert string "SDtErrors.l" to type Pixmap

...
> So why is that?

It's likely that some other widgets than the one you intended are doing the
complaining. (That's because of the "*" in the pattern - lots of widgets
get to offer an opinion).

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[Charles Lindsey]

In <12somkv...@corp.supernews.com> Thomas Dickey <dic...@saltmine.radix.net> writes:

>In comp.unix.solaris Charles Lindsey <c...@clerew.man.ac.uk> wrote:
>> dtterm -xrm '*iconPixmap:SDtErrors.l'
>...
>> Warning: Cannot convert string "SDtErrors.l" to type Pixmap
>> Warning: Cannot convert string "SDtErrors.l" to type Pixmap
>...
>> So why is that?

>It's likely that some other widgets than the one you intended are doing the
>complaining. (That's because of the "*" in the pattern - lots of widgets
>get to offer an opinion).

No. Even Dtterm.iconPixmap:SDtErrors.l causes the same response.