NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #19/NN_1992_19.iso/spool/comp/lang/tcl/1293

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From: [e-mail] (J. D. Stroomer)
Subject: Openlook with Tk
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Keywords: Tcl Tk Openlook Motif
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Organization: AT&T
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 10:39:55 GMT
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We have spent the last couple of months looking into using Tk/Tcl as the
underpinnings for a program we are developing.  We're pretty enthusiastic about
what we've seen, but there's a hitch - we have to support both the Motif and
Openlook look and feel.  Motif is obviously no problem, since the Tk we have
supplies that.  To make the Openlook version we thought we could start with the
Motif Tk and alter the low-level code that builds widgets.  The end result would
still be built on top of Xlib, but would produce the Openlook look and feel.

We have a couple questions about the job:

(1) Has anyone already solved our problem?  If so, how can we get the software?

(2) If we have to do it ourselves, how hard would it be?  Is the approach we
suggested (i.e., replacing low-level Xlib code) the right thing to do?

Thanks for the help.

Jeff

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