Geoscience FAQs

Questions Relating to All INT Widgets

Q1. Can I draw anything I want on top of INT widgets?
Q2. My INT widgets are core dumping when destroyed. I am running on Solaris 2.5.1 and INT Release 3.2.
Q3. When I try to output a very large PostScript file my application is core dumping, why?
Q4. I am setting XmNtitleAlignment resource to XintALIGNMENT_BEGINNING, but see no change on the screen. I am using CDE rather than Motif.

Questions for Seismic/Segy/Picking Widgets

Q5. How do I change the color of my crosshair/rubberband lines?
Q6. How do I change the color of my traces?
Q7. How do I create a scaled PostScript file for my Seismic display?
Q8. I am using AddPoint to add 20,000 points in a picking record which is way too slow. What do I do?
Q9. How do I work with auto picked points if I want to supply an extra picking routine?
Q10. I want to be able to insert my own snap callback, and/or my own tracker callback. How do I do that?
Q11. How do I update my trace display without flashing?
Q12. How do I add extra traces to my INT Seismic widget without excessive flashing?
Q13. When I zoom on an empty Seismic widget I get a warning message about min and max normalization limits, how do I turn that off?
Q14. When computing the max amplitude for a data set, the widget only looks at first 250 traces. This can sometimes cause scaling to be incorrect.
Q15. How does one supply their own filter to a Seismic widget?
Q16. How do I do an inplace zoom, but keep my entire dataset visible?
Q17. My title keeps changing colors although I never change background color, why?
Q18. How can I specify a reference value for the display of several seismic widgets?
Q19. I get a bus error when I call XintSeismicGetPixmapInfo, why?
Q20. When I use the XintSeismicAreaSelectionCallback to define a region for zooming, it uses both primary and secondary keys for selection, rather than sequential trace number which makes the zoom wrong. What do I do?
Q21. I am trying to set my annotation to Offset but the annotation only gives me an offset for the first trace and then nothing, what is wrong?

Questions for WellLog/Track Widgets

Q22. How do you get a wrap-around on the WellLog widget?
Q23. Can a 2nd applicationShellWidgetClass be used with the xintWellLogWidgetClass widget as a manager with the child widgets displaying correctly?
Q24. I want to label an xintAxisWidgetClass from 1.95 to 2.95 but the axis shows 1.95 - 3.00 and labels 2.0 and 3.0.
Q25. How do I set the grid resources for the WellLog widget?
Q26. When I have several Track widgets of different sizes in a WellLog widget and do a resize making the window smaller, the smallest track disappears. How do I fix this?
Q27. How does one delete a marker and have it actual disappear from the screen?
Q28. How do I display the well log curve from left to right rather than up and down?

Questions for Contour Widget

Q29. How does one "flip" the annotation on the Contour widget.
Q30. My color contour widget output to PostScript ignores my resource color_model of XintMONOCHROME and is output in color, why?

Questions for Graphic/EditObject Widgets

Q31. My application keeps bombing when I try to use a Text object, why?
Q32. How do I find the value of my Polyline when I shift the entire line?
Q33. How does one get a locator callback on a Polyline overlaying a Contour widget?
Q34. How do I control viewing INT objects on the screen if I cannot manage and unmanage them?

Questions for PlotXY Widget

Q35. In PlotXY, when using the resource XmNlineStyle set to XintLINE_DOUBLE_DASH how does one set the two colors for the double dashes?
Q36. How do I do an inplace zoom, but keep my entire PlotXY visible?