jipping@cs.hope.edu (Mike Jipping) (03/09/89)
Fellow Sun-Spotters: Let's assume that I have a Sun 3/60 running SunOS 4.1 with X11/NeWS, a DecStation 3100 running DecWindows, and a HP machine (whatever model) running X11. All windowing systems are "based on" X11 and are claimed to be "compatible" in every way with X. Will a toolkit used on one of these machines "port" to another fairly painlessly? You see what I'm driving at. If View2 is simply an X toolkit running in an X environment, can I use it on a DecStation? Or an HP? If a "port" isn't possible (whatever that means in an X environment), then what happens if the DecStation uses the Sun as an X server? What happens then? I don't know a whole heckuva lot about X yet, but I'm learning. This toolkit business is REAL inviting if I can standardize window environments across machines from various vendors. Mike Jipping Hope College Department of Computer Science jipping@cs.hope.edu