jac@sundance.llnl.gov (James Crotinger) (10/08/90)
Has anyone out there used WingZ on the Sun? I'm particularly interested in hearing how it functions under OpenWindows. I understand that it is a SunView product which employs OPEN LOOK(TM) UI. How does this work under OpenWindows? Why didn't they just make it an XView program? If WingZ doesn't work under X Windows, is there a decent spread sheet that does? James A. Crotinger Lawrence Livermore Nat'l Lab // The above views jac@gandalf.llnl.gov P.O. Box 808; L-630 \\ // are mine and are not (415) 422-0259 Livermore CA 94550 \\/ necessarily those of LLNL.
asnyder@ernie.artorg.hmc.psu.edu (Alan J. Snyder) (11/01/90)
WingZ works under OpenWindows, like any Sunview product, with one caveat (see below). You need to deal with the fact that Sunview applications are always on the top, and, if you have an 8MB machine, you need to deal with the swapping that goes on when Sunview apps run with OpenWindows. Caveat: WingZ 1.0, the current SunOS release, appears to need the _Sunview_ selection_svc, not the sv_xv_sel_svc that runs with OpenWindows. I discovered this when I installed the selection service patch, which get properly killed when you exit sunview, only to discover that WingZ began generating RPC timeouts trying to query the selection service. Running the old or new selection_svc while WingZ is running fixes the problem, and does not appear to hurt anything else. Informix says that they are working on lots of ports; OpenWindows will be among them; no schedule from the people I talked too, although it seemed that Motif might be first in line.