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- From: brianw@ark.Eng.Sun.COM (Brian Warkentine)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look,alt.toolkits.xview,comp.windows.x
- Subject: SlingShot 2.0 is here
- Date: 23 Nov 1992 03:55:28 GMT
- Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc. Mt. View, Ca.
- Lines: 60
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <lh0lhgINN5eg@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
- Reply-To: brianw@ark.Eng.Sun.COM (Brian Warkentine)
- NNTP-Posting-Host: ark
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-
- I am proud to announce the release of The SlingShot Extensions to XView
- version 2.0. This release is available for ftp now. (See directions
- below.)
-
- The SlingShot Extensions to XView are a set of "widgets" that make life
- easier for the XView application developer. It easily solves problems
- like "how do I draw graphics without touching Xlib," "how do I handle
- events for single click, double click, and dragging", and "how do I
- position objects out in a tree, or an array." The SlingShot Extensions
- offer features that are unfortunately not available in many toolkits.
-
- Release 2.0 incorporates all the features of 1.0 and adds major new
- features such as drag and drop support, better documentation, and
- (of course) new widgets and callbacks.
-
- There are two ways to get the SlingShot Extensions: If you have ftp
- access, then you may find the extensions on export.lcs.mit.edu, in
- contrib/SlingShot2.0.tar.Z. (If your site is distant, you might first
- check local ftp servers, as the contents of export.lcs.mit.edu are
- duplicated around the world.) For example:
- % ftp export.lcs.mit.edu
- ...
- ftp> binary
- 200 Type set to I.
- ftp> cd /contrib
- 250 CWD command successful.
- ftp> get SlingShot2.0.tar.Z
- 200 PORT command successful.
- 150 Opening data connection for SlingShot2.0.tar.Z (binary mode) (401734 bytes).
- 226 Transfer complete.
- local: SlingShot2.0.tar.Z remote: SlingShot2.0.tar.Z
- 401734 bytes received in 11 seconds (36 Kbytes/s)
- ftp>
-
- For people without ftp access, you can get the extensions through the
- services of an automated email archive. You can get the release from
- the archive server by mailing the following lines to
- archive-server@gazooch.eng.sun.com:
-
- send sspkg2.0 Part01 Part02 Part03 Part04
- send sspkg2.0 Part05 Part06 Part07 Part08
- send sspkg2.0 Part09 Part10 Part11 Part12
- send sspkg2.0 Part13 Part14 Part15 Part16
- send sspkg2.0 Part17 Part18
- send sspkg2.0 DocPart01 DocPart02 DocPart03
- send sspkg2.0 DocPart04 DocPart05 DocPart06
-
-
- All these files are shar files. When you receive them, strip the mail
- header off and input them to /bin/sh. The Part01 shar file creates sub
- directories, so make sure that you run this one through /bin/sh first.
-
- Also note that sometimes mailers mangle the return path, especially if
- you are using uucp. If you have trouble getting a response from the
- archive server, try adding "path <your-mail-address>" to your request.
-
- -brian
- brian.warkentine@eng.sun.com
-
-