Shawn.Hayes@samba.acs.unc.edu (Shawn Hayes) (04/03/91)
The company I work for is getting ready to work on a new product that will run under X Windows using Motif. I'm interested in hearing any complaints/suggestions/experiences with tools for generating a User Interface for X- Windows. Three products that we are aware of are XBuild, ezX, and UIMX. If you've worked with any of these please tell me what you think of the products. flso if you know of any tools that would work on SCO Unix I'd like to hear of them as our target machine will be SCO Unix, but most of our development will be on HPUX. Shawn Hayes shawn@jdyx.ga.us -- ============================================================================= Extended Bulletin Board Service, Research & Development Office of Information Technology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill internet: bbs.acs.unc.edu or 128.109.157.30
marbru@auto-trol.com (Martin Brunecky) (04/24/91)
In article <100920313@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com> tay@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com (Mike Taylor) writes: >> The company I work for is getting ready to work on a new product >>that will run under X Windows using Motif. I'm interested in hearing any >>complaints/suggestions/experiences with tools for generating a User Interface >>for X- Windows. Three products that we are aware of are XBuild, ezX, and UIMX. >I would reccommend HP Intarface Architect (HP product version of UIMX) Since you use this newsgroup for advertising, let me express some concerns about UIMX. Note I am not disputing it's features nor quality - UIMX most likely is the strongest competitor in the field and, as you correctly note, almost each of the UI builders has it's Achille's heel. 1) When it will be possible (and how) to add user written widgets to the tool ? 2) UIMX generates the "C" code. This implies that anytime you change the user interface (for example add/remove menu buttons), your application must be re-linked. No problem during development, but I certainly don't want to relink in the field to accomodate site customizations. Are there any plans to support Wcl as a UIMX output, so that unless there is a new functionality, the application need not be relinked ? 3) Several UI buildres (public domain Dirt for example) support concept of "templates" - predefined collections of object that you can merely instantiate(with modification). Anything similar coming up in UIMX ? -- =*= Opinions presented here are solely of my own and not those of Auto-trol =*= Martin Brunecky marbru%auto-trol@sunpeaks.central.sun.com (303) 252-2499 (better avoid: marbru@auto-trol.COM ) Auto-trol Technology Corp. 12500 North Washington St., Denver, CO 80241-2404