The X-Designer/Visaj bridge

Visaj can import designs created in X-Designer, the graphical user interface builder for Motif. This enables you to move legacy Motif C/C++ designs quickly to Java. Visaj also imports designs created in Sun Microsystems' Workshop Visual in exactly the same way.

The File menu contains an Import pullright menu. This contains one item: X-Designer bridge file. Selecting this displays a file dialog allowing you to specify the design to import.

There are some features in X-Designer which have no equivalent in Visaj. If your import file contains any of these, a dialog is displayed describing the situation. There are three possible problems:

  1. One or more classes were expanded into simple component hierarchies
  2. String/font/color/pixmap objects in your design were examded into simple property settings.
  3. Forms were converted into Panels with null layouts.
Apart from the discrepancies described above, the imported design should reflect the Motif application exactly.

For further information on the X-Designer import system, see the Visaj User's Guide.