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- From: brueck@inm.uni-sb.de (Stefan Brueck)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer
- Subject: Summary: X windows development on NeXT computers
- Message-ID: <BRUECK.92Sep7175642@inmsol.inm.uni-sb.de>
- Date: 7 Sep 92 16:56:42 GMT
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- Organization: Institute for New Materials (INM), Saarbr"ucken, Germany.
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-
- hi!
-
- thanks for the (unexpected many) answers to my question:
-
- > Perhaps a rather strange question of mine: Is it possible to use the NeXT
- > computer with its UNIX as cross development system for programming X Windows?
- > Did anyone something similar before?
-
- here is the SUMMARY of the answers
- ##################################
-
- From: Alex D. Nghiem <alex@pencom.com>
- -----
- You can do it, although you have to obtain the X distribution for the NeXT
- computers. There are several sources:
-
- 1. co-Xist (produced by us)
- 2. mouse-X (public domain)
- 3. XNeXT (public domain)
- 4. cub'X (produced by cub'X)
- 5. eXodus (produced by White Pine)
-
- Once you have the libraries installed, you can compiled your X code just as
- you would on any other Unix machines. If you need more information on
- co-Xist or X in general, please send mail to co-Xist_info@pencom.com.
-
-
- From: rs05%asylum@gte.com (Russ Sasnett)
- -----
- with a monochrome station, the public domain
- Mouse-X (from MacGill (sp?)) distribution works
- fabulously. i hacked on a number of programs with
- it, and found it to be stable and "standard",
- not to mention very fast.
-
- now i've upgraded to a color station. i purchased
- CubX and it works great as well. i think you should
- go commercial if you need a color X server on the
- NeXT; the PD stuff was not very good last i checked.
-
- for my purposes, i like CubX because i can run the
- X server in full-screen mode; that way i can see
- exactly what an X user would see on their screen.
- this is also important for making sure you handle
- window manager interactions correctly. CubX will
- also do the rootless windows thing if that's what
- you want.
-
-
- From: William.Pietri@umich.edu <william@stat.lsa.umich.edu>
- -----
- Yes. Under the hood, the NeXT is a real live Unix box. You can install
- all the standard X stuff on it and work with it happily. An added bonus
- of using the NeXT is that NextStep allows you to prototype your program
- much more easily. If you do your program first in NextStep and then port
- it to X, the end product should be much better and the development time
- should be lessened.
-
-
- From: Paul Poh <ppoh@amethyst.tcs.tufts.edu>
- -----
- It not such a strange question at all :-) Actually, i plan to do some X
- work on my NeXT. I've spend some considerable time getting an X11R5 server
- to work properly on my NeXT. I've even got so far as to replace NeXTstep's
- GUI with X. The libraries will build fairly easily on a NeXT but the server
- is more of a problem. There are several commercial and pd X server ports
- available. Check out the FAQ for comp.sys.next.*.
-
- thanks!
- stefan
-