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- From: matt@centerline.com (Matt Landau)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
- Subject: Re: Alternatives to Xt based toolkits? (Was: Re: SunSoft Windows Positioning)
- Date: 17 Nov 1992 15:40:42 GMT
- Organization: CenterLine Software, Inc.
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- In <1992Nov17.122054.16929@cas.org> lwv26@cas.org (Larry W. Virden) writes:
- >Unfortunately, these are all commercial products. And as such, they require
- >a selling job to one's faculty, management, wife or husband ;-) to justify
- >the cost of the product, the per sell license fees, etc.
-
- Well, all of the major Xt-based toolkits (OLIT, MooLIT, OSF/Motif) are
- ALSO commercial products. Like the commercial non-Xt alternatives, they
- involve varying license fees, and carry varying (often no) runtime fees.
-
- To take OLIT and OI as examples (one Xt-based, the other not), they each
- cost around $1K for the basic library license, and carry no runtime fees
- whatsoever for products built using them. Is that really such an onerous
- policy?
-
- >Is there anyone out there who is working on non-Xt based, C code
- >toolkits PREFERABLY either look and feel independant or at least which
- >doesn't require the purchase of either product so as to avoid the war
- >syndrome) for free distribution? Interviews, Andrew and the Tk toolkit
- >have been mentioned to date.
-
- Stanford InterViews, Andrew, and Tk are all interesting examples of non
- commercial toolkits; I'm not sure any of them are up to building robust,
- commercial-quality products, but on the other hand I've just seen posted
- in comp.newprod an announcement for a Tk-based product, so I'm not sure
- they're NOT up the building such products either.
- --
- Matt Landau Waiting for a flash of enlightenment
- matt@centerline.com in all this blood and thunder
-