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- From: todd@kastle.com (Todd A. Scalzott)
- Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
- Subject: Re: XVT toolkit??
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.140542.11954@sm.sony.co.jp>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 14:05:42 GMT
- Sender: daemon@sm.sony.co.jp (The devil himself)
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- Organization: Kastle Development Associates, Arlington, VA, USA
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- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 07:24:01 GMT
- Message-Id: <TODD.92Nov11072401@todd.kastle.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.windows.x.motif,comp.windows.misc,comp.sys.misc,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.unix.misc
- References: <1992Nov6.173238.6810@atinc.uucp>, <BxCptF.Jw1@world.std.com>
- Sender: xpert-request@expo.lcs.mit.edu
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- In article <BxCptF.Jw1@world.std.com> kevyn@world.std.com (Kevyn Ford) writes:
-
- > Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.windows.x.motif,comp.windows.misc,comp.sys.misc,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.unix.misc
- > Path: friend!uunet!pageworks.com!world!kevyn
- > From: kevyn@world.std.com (Kevyn Ford)
- > Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- > References: <1992Nov6.173238.6810@atinc.uucp>
- > Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 15:03:13 GMT
- >
- > > I would like inputs from anyone who has used the XVT Portability
- > > Toolkit.
- >
- > One of my projects evaluated the XVT Toolkit against using the native
- > GUI for our VAXstations ... as far as producing a portable GUI
- > application XVT is fairly good.
- Agreed. I haven't had to do any ports yet (the project has gone to the
- wayside), but I really like XVT. Especially over the straight X or Motif
- programming.
-
- > However, while there wasn't any one problem that we encountered with
- > XVT, it is not as robust as the native GUI system (which is to be
- > expected) and we found that there were many "small" features lacking
- > that, all together, gave the application an "unfinished" look (you can
- > actually see some of this in their XVT-Design tool itself -- which is
- > brain-dead).
- That's what the "eXtensible" in XVT is for. You are NOT limitted to the
- API. In fact, the API provides a nice set of conditionals upon which you
- build your native code.
-
- > We have found that XVT is more suited for "simpler" interfaces, and it
- > will be used as such, but for one particular application we've decided
- > to use the DECwindows/Motif interface.
- >
- > In short, XVT is a good portable GUI system for apps that don't really
- > need anything more than a few pull-down menus and graphical controls.
- I don't really agree with this, although I see where you are coming from.
- Question: are you using release 2, or release 3? If you haven't looked at
- release 3 yet, it is a major improvement over the release 2 API and
- provides new types of controls (whose popularity came about with the advent
- of Windows 3.1).
-
-
- --
-
- Todd Scalzott todd@kastle.com
- Kastle Development Associates ...!uunet!friend!todd
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