alok@sun.com (Alok Singhania) (06/23/89)
If you are not a SunView application developer, please ignore this posting. __________________________________________________________________________ Sun is considering removing support for the SunView 3.X screen compatibility options from SunView/SunOS 4.1. SunView 3.X screen compatibility is an option given to the users of SunView/SunOS 4.0 which allows them to select between the SunView 3.X style user interface and SunView 4.0 style user interface. The changes will not affect application programmers. Application programmers will still get to choose between SunView 3.X function calls, which will produce a SunView 3.X style user interface, and SunView 4.0 function calls, which produce a SunView 4.0 style user interface. However, when the USER runs the application, he will no longer be able to select the style of interface; he will have to be content with whatever the application programmer selected in the implementation. The proposed changes are as follows: 1) Removal of support for stacking menus 2) Removal of support for the old style text menu 3) Removal of support for the old style tty menu 4) Removal of support for the old style frame menu 5) Removal of support for old style alerts The 4.X SunView enhancements which supplant these items are discussed in the document "SunOS 4.0 Change Notes", part number 800-1731-10, pp. 35 - 41. Customers who would have problems (adverse impacts on software products) with these changes are encouraged to send email (by June 28, 1989) to: alok@sun.com Thank you, Alok Singhania SunView Product Manager