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- From: jacs@aiai.uucp (Julian Smart)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
- Subject: Re: Alternatives to Xt based toolkits? (Was: Re: SunSoft Windows Positioning)
- Message-ID: <7935@skye.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 21:58:06 GMT
- References: <1e0grvINNije@armory.centerline.com> <1992Nov16.152506.9523@cas.org> <1e8m5pINNne4@armory.centerline.com> <1992Nov17.122054.16929@cas.org>
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- Reply-To: jacs@aiai.uucp (Julian Smart)
- Organization: AIAI, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
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- In article <1992Nov17.122054.16929@cas.org> lvirden@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.
- >
- >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.
- >--
-
- I'm about to release my own offering, called wxWindows, which is a C++ class
- library on top of Windows 3.1 and XView (weird combination, maybe!) I'll
- be doing a Motif port sometime in the next few months. It's by no means
- a commercial-quality product, but it does have a few interesting features
- e.g. DDE interprocess comms subset on Windows *and* UNIX, context device
- object for generic drawing and printing (PostScript on UNIX), file selector,
- semi-automatic MDI support (Windows only).
-
- And it's free. A tentative version 1.0 is in pub/wxwin on skye.aiai.ed.ac.uk,
- along with an XView demo. It comes with a 100-page manual for those with
- under-employed PostScript printers.
-
- Regards,
-
- Julian Smart
- jacs@aiai.ed.ac.uk
-