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- From: pjm@isis.cshl.org (Pat Monardo)
- Subject: Re: XView
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- Organization: Cold Spring Harbor Labs
- References: <epwcil5@openlook.Unify.Com>
- Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 16:12:59 GMT
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- In article <epwcil5@openlook.Unify.Com> fgreco@cfdev1026.shearson.com (Frank Greco) writes:
- >> > From various industry-wide discussions, it would seem that OLIT is a
- >> > more attractive library for new development work.
- >
- > try it first... If you keep on putting pins in your hand,
- > you'll eventually put up with the pain too. Don't let the
- > industry-wide discussions *dictate* to you how to solve your
- > problems (said with a Perot-twang).
- >
- >> If Sun dumps XView, it leaves a large number of XView programmers
- >> out in the cold. I use XView and GUIDE for all my window development,
- >> and Harris has production software based on XView. If Sun drops XView,
- >> we take a serious maintenance and development hit.
-
- i use XView and enjoy it very much. i used the Package system
- to design my objects and the uniformity of the create/set/get/destroy/
- event/... methods has produced a fairly clean GUI system.
- i would be happy if Sun would freeze it but obviously not
- drop it. i need Sun to make sure it works well with XGL
- and currently it does not (as far as my XView/XGL skills
- allow me to make it work). I dont care about Panel/Panel_items
- rewrites. i also have NO intention of learning OLIT.
- i would prefer to continue using XView until a MUCH
- higher level/sophisticated (for example, more sophisticated
- than Smalltalk, say) toolkit is available.
- i think it is coming with DOE.
-
- --
- -- Pat Monardo
- -- pjm@cshl.org
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