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- From: colas@bagheera.inria.fr (Colas Nahaboo)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl
- Subject: Re: tkwm?
- Message-ID: <24811@sophia.inria.fr>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 08:40:14 GMT
- References: <MeOgrta00h5KM=qH9W@cs.cmu.edu>
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- Organization: Koala Project, Bull Research France
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- In article <MeOgrta00h5KM=qH9W@cs.cmu.edu>, Sean.Levy@cs.cmu.edu writes:
- |> If possible, you should just be able
- |> to use tk like you always would, although there are probably some
- |> gotchas in the context of a wm.
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- You said it! Be prepared for looong debugging sessions :-)
- Seriously, I would advise you to go the easy route and try to add customization
- to an already-existing wm (twm being the best candidate), and let it do all the
- tricky stuff. You would only replace the "display" code with Tk buttons for
- window names, and add new functions, written in TCL to be triggered. (to
- implement rooms)
-
- Writing an X window manager from scratch is quite complex now, with all the
- ICCCM and the proprietary hacks dones by proprietary toolkits (Motif, OLIT, and
- others...)
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