Knowns bugs

Note: "Fixed" means that it will be fixed in the next release.

• PostScript font widths and heights are not calculated correctly, only approximately by using the X server's values. Is it possible to get the exact dimensions of PostScript fonts for use by the printing code? The PostScript code can get the exact values when it is run by the printer, but the program needs it while generating the PostScript file. Also, even if the point size gives the total height of the font, the program need the ascent and descent values separately.

• JXMesaCamera displays nothing when using 24-bit color.

Stuff that doesn't seem to be our fault

• If you open a menu and then close it by clicking in the window containing the menu, toolbar hints will stop working. You have to switch focus to another window and then back to the first window before toolbar hints start working again. (We've only tested this on fvwm2 with Point-to-Focus.)

Stuff that really isn't our fault

• When running a JX program on multiple displays, if one X server shuts down, the entire JX program dies. We really wish that there was a better way to catch this and handle it more gracefully! Unfortunately, Xlib treats it as a fatal error, so the only way to recover is to use longjmp(), which is not safe when using C++. If only the X Consortium would report it as just another event... (e.g. !*@#Happened) Then we could deal with it safely. As it stands, we can only provide JXApplication::CleanUpBeforeSuddenDeath().

  JX does provide protection against X server crashes, however, via JXFileDocument::SafetySave().

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