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- From: mor@xenon.lcs.mit.edu (Ralph Mor)
- Subject: Re: what is PEX5 in MIT-X11R5 patch 19
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.183530.15840@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
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- Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
- References: <1i9lhdINN52r@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 18:35:30 GMT
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- In article <1i9lhdINN52r@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>, schmidt@rpksun1.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de (Martin Schmidt) writes:
- |> Hi experts,
- |>
- |> I using the PEX-SI server and the phigs API from MIT X11R5
- |> on my SparcII. As you know the PEX-SI server does not support
- |>
- |> - HLHSR_MODE
- |> - no monochrome screens
- |> - ..
- |>
- |> Since some days we have installed MIT-X11R5 patch ..,19,20,21.
- |> In patch 19 a new PEX library is included (PEXlib or PEX5 called).
- |>
- |> 1. Question:
- |> How can I use that library ? What are the new features ?
- |> Is there a PHIGS API available to this implementation ?
- |> Does patch 19 changes my PEX server (or are there now 2 servers) ????
- |>
-
- You seem to think that PEXlib might add some new features to PEX.
- No. PEXlib is a new API that gives you complete access to the
- PEX protocol. Some of its advantages over PHIGS is that it is
- policy free, provides immediate mode capablities, and it integrates
- very cleanly with your Xlib and toolkit applications.
-
- If you want to learn more about PEXlib, you can ftp the PEXlib
- specification document from MIT (ftp export.lcs.mit.edu, look for
- /pub/DOCS/PEXlib/PEXlib.ps.tar.Z). Also, Tom Gaskins has written
- an excellent book on PEXlib (as part of the O'Reilly series on X).
- I suggest Tom's book over reading the spec.
-
-
- |> 2. Question:
- |> I am using PEX-SI and MIT-X11R5 phigs in an C++ environment
- |> (on the top of InterViews [this is another problem. but now I
- |> have a first version of a PEXGlyph]. To use the phigs-functions I
- |> need function prototypes. For MIT-X11R5 phigs I found no prototypes.
- |> Therefore I edited the file mit/extensions/lib/PEX/c_binding.
- |> Is there s.th. similar for the new library (better for an API) ??
- |>
-
- The PEXlib-SI has function prototypes for all of the API functions.
- The prototypes can be found in the header file PEXlib.h.
-
-
- Ralph
-