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  7. Date: Fri, 7 Nov 1997 11:49:14 -0600
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  9. From: Clinton Jeffery <jeffery@segfault.cs.utsa.edu>
  10. To: andersh@maths.lth.se
  11. Cc: icon-group@optima.CS.Arizona.EDU
  12. In-Reply-To: <63ut6p$icj$1@news.lth.se> (andersh@maths.lth.se)
  13. Subject: Re: Graphics suggestion
  14. Reply-To: jeffery@cs.utsa.edu
  15. Errors-To: icon-group-errors@optima.CS.Arizona.EDU
  16. Status: RO
  17.  
  18.  
  19. Brian Rogoff wrote, regarding portable graphics:
  20. > There are Perl-Tk, Python-Tk, ML-Tk, etc. Numerous commercial and free 
  21. > products are built with Tk, and it seems fairly stable now.
  22.  
  23. Yup, Tk seems like a strong option, and there are probably several Tk users
  24. in our community who could help build and/or test it.
  25.  
  26. Anders writes:
  27. > What would be preferable, a straight Icon-Tk connection or a
  28. > connection that follows the present Icon graphic conventions?
  29.  
  30. Good question!  There are strong advantages to both.
  31.  
  32. A straight Icon-Tk connection would provide facilities for more flexible
  33. user interface construction.  A connection that implements our interface
  34. would provide somewhat better support for graphics programming.  Whether or
  35. not it provided a portable straight-Tk interface, a Tk-Icon wouldn't solve
  36. our portability goals unless it supported our graphics interface on the Mac
  37. and maybe additional platforms.
  38.  
  39. Clint Jeffery, jeffery@cs.utsa.edu
  40.