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- From: dms@cat.syr.edu (David Sternlicht)
- Subject: Re: attaching X window id to IV object
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.173556.13773@newstand.syr.edu>
- Organization: CASE Center, Syracuse University
- References: <1992Dec29.183839.16618@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 17:35:56 EST
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- dac@cbnewsf.cb.att.com writes:
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- My understanding is that a goal of IV is to keep the IV programmer working
- exclusively at the object level and not do any direct X coding. Am I
- prevented from it? Do one or more IV classes provide some analog to the
- OLIT Stub, so that I can capture those mouse cursor movements using IV?
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- Nothing prevents you from direct Xlib codeing. While the InterViews design
- provides an X independent level for programmers to work at, it is not difficult
- to mix IV code with Xlib. I have done this on numerous occasions. The IV-X11
- include files are accesable to the application programer in order to do this.
- I am not familiar with the OLIT STUB widget, but you can use the InterView's
- InputHandler class to respond to mouse motion.
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-
- dave sternlicht
- mit X consortium
- dave@expo.lcs.mit.edu
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