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- From: fgreco@shearson.com (Frank Greco)
- Subject: tooltalk questions/comments
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.225450.8217@shearson.com>
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- Organization: Lehman Brothers
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 22:54:50 GMT
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- I'm in the process of creating my first *real* tooltalk-capable
- application and have a few questions that perhaps somebody might
- be able to answer.
-
- 1. Is there a *guarantee* that all observers receive my message?
-
- 2. I cannot seem to get a little tooltalk pgm to communicate
- over a WAN. There is no common X session or (obviously) common
- process group. How do I remedy this?
-
- 3. The (sparse) examples that I've seen only send simple ints
- among session members. Does anyone have any examples of sending
- a structure? Both simple (ie, no ptrs in struct) and a complex
- (ie, ptrs) would be helpful examples.
-
- 4. My performance tests, informal as they may be, indicate that
- tooltalk is fine for high-level communication (ie, open app, iconify
- app) but seems to be slow and perhaps unusable for things like
- real-time data feeds. Can anyone corroborate this?
-
- 5. Can anyone compare (Athena) Zephyr to ToolTalk, or am I comparing
- apples and pi-mesons here?
-
- Thanks,
-
- Frank G.
-
- imho, the Tooltalk C language API seems to be cumbersome and
- would benefit tremendously from an XView/varargs approach. Also
- where's the C++ bindings?
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