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- From: lwv26@cas.org (Larry W. Virden)
- Subject: Alternatives to Xt based toolkits? (Was: Re: SunSoft Windows Positioning)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.152506.9523@cas.org>
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- Reply-To: lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden)
- Organization: Nedriv Software and Shoe Shiners, Uninc.
- References: <e5pcprq@openlook.Unify.Com> <1e0grvINNije@armory.centerline.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 15:21:24 GMT
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- In article <1e0grvINNije@armory.centerline.com> matt@centerline.com (Matt Landau) writes:
- :
- :> I would never recommend programming with an Xt-intrinsics based
-
- and then
- :
- :But on the brighter side, maybe this will get people to take a second
- :look at other non-widget based toolkits. There are a lot of good ideas
- :out there, and a lot of interesting implementations. Perhaps if the
-
-
- Okay, what are some of these alternatives that are viable - i.e. development
- is continuing?
-
- Another possibility is that someone (or ones...) may decide to take XView
- and slingshot, work out the legal situation with Sun after it is dropped,
- and go on and DO the things that XView programmers have been waiting on
- Sun to do. Since it appears that the various new features that have
- been mentioned in this group lately are not coming before the EOL perhaps
- it is time for programmers to go ahead and write their own XView
- extensions.
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