nhoj@hicom.hitachi.com (John Marvin) (05/02/90)
Which OpenLook? The Amiga UNIX is supposed to run OpenLook, my question is which toolkit will it use? AT&T xt toolkit based or Sun xview toolkit? I vote for xview, the API is much nicer... John Marvin Hitachi Computer Products j_marvin@hitachi.com
jcb@frisbee.Sun.COM (Jim Becker) (05/05/90)
nhoj@hicom.hitachi.com (John Marvin) writes:
Which OpenLook?
The Amiga UNIX is supposed to run OpenLook, my question is which
toolkit will it use? AT&T xt toolkit based or Sun xview toolkit?
I vote for xview, the API is much nicer...
John Marvin Hitachi Computer Products
j_marvin@hitachi.com
My guess is neither. Open Look is a *specification*, rather than a
toolkit. It's very possible that Jim Macraz converted/rewrote
Intuition to look & feel like Open Look, but didn't base it on the
existing toolkits. It would be easiest to take this approach, starting
from Intuition, than to base it off of existing X/Unix solutions.
If Xt+ was used that drags you into the land of the Intrinsics and the
X Window System. If XView is used you are also in the X world but
there is plenty of Unix (and BSD) specific stuff within it. I doubt
that getting this to work on AmigaDOS would be easy. (I know both
pretty intimately.)
-Jim Becker
XView Development Group
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Jim Becker / jcb%frisbee@sun.com / Sun Microsystemsabair@turbinia.sps.mot.com (Alan Bair) (05/05/90)
As I understand the AT&T distribution of UNIX SYSV.4, it will include the Xt+ toolkit. I have read this several times and heard it at a Sun presentation about X11/News and where Sun & AT&T are going with UNIX. So I suspect CBM will just provide the toolkit and clients provided by AT&T. Though they will have to port the server to make use of the Amiga's special hardware. -- Alan Bair SPS CAD Logic Simulation & Test Motorola, Inc. Austin, Texas abair@turbinia.sps.mot.com ...!cs.utexas.edu!oakhill!turbinia!abair
jimm@amiga.UUCP (Jim Mackraz) (05/07/90)
In article <135234@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> jcb@frisbee.Sun.COM (Jim Becker) writes: )nhoj@hicom.hitachi.com (John Marvin) writes: ) ) Which OpenLook? ) ) The Amiga UNIX is supposed to run OpenLook, my question is which ) toolkit will it use? AT&T xt toolkit based or Sun xview toolkit? ) I vote for xview, the API is much nicer... )My guess is neither. Open Look is a *specification*, rather than a )toolkit. It's very possible that Jim Macraz converted/rewrote )Intuition to look & feel like Open Look, but didn't base it on the )existing toolkits. It would be easiest to take this approach, starting )from Intuition, than to base it off of existing X/Unix solutions. Well, anything's possible, my friend, but his question was about Amiga Unix. I think I put in enough support to do a lot of OPEN LOOK under todays Intuition, but not pop-up menus (sorry) and four-corner sizing, to name two. I really like Open Look a lot, at least by reading the (excellent) spec. Intuition is still very quick, not using a networked model. )If Xt+ was used that drags you into the land of the Intrinsics and the )X Window System. If XView is used you are also in the X world but )there is plenty of Unix (and BSD) specific stuff within it. I doubt )that getting this to work on AmigaDOS would be easy. (I know both )pretty intimately.) The unix uses X, and as I understand it, SVR4 comes with lots o' toolkits. I would imagine that as sorts out SVR4, so sorts out Amiga Unix. jimm -- -------------------------------------------------- - opinions by me "This voice console is a *must*. I press Execute. `Hello, I know that you've been feeling tired. I bring you love and deeper understanding.' " -lyrics by Kate Bush