uejiowh@wscad4.crd.ge.COM (01/19/91)
I have used UIMX from Visual Edge in Montreal, Canada. It worked quite well. It would have been nice if it produced UIL but it did produce reasonable C code. It had a C interpreter in it which made the debugging of the Call back routines much easier. The graphical build capability was also quite nice. I believe HP is now selling this product under a different name. Check with your HP sales person or call Visual Edge directly. Visual edges address is: Visual Edge Software 3870 Cote Vertu St. Laurent, Quebec Canada H4R 1V4 attn. Michael Foody phone: (514) 332-6430 or fax: (514) 332-5914 This is the number I have for them but it is a year old. Wayne Uejio General Electric CRD Disclaimer: opinions uejiowh@crd.ge.com KWC-275 expressed are my own Office: 518-387-6441 P.O. Box 8 and not the company's Fax: 518-387-7080 Schenectady NY 12301 opinion.
dex@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com (Dex Smith) (01/25/91)
The HP version of UIM/X is called HP Interface Architect.
Here's a partial list of features:
* True WYSIWYG layout.
Widgets can be interactive created, moved, and resized with the mouse.
* Full support for the entire OSF/Motif 1.0 widget set.
Includes support for every widget and every resource. Special forms,
such as the Menu Editor, simplify complicated development tasks.
(Subsequent releases will support the most recent release of Motif.)
* Built-In C Interpreter.
The interpreter allows seamless integration of user interface and
application functions during development. You can immediately test
the behavior of your whole application (not just the user interface).
* Convenience library (optional).
A complete library of convenience functions is provided to simplify
interactions with the Xt Intrinsics and the OSF/Motif widgets. Use of
the convenience library is optional. For porting applications to other
platforms, the source code for the convenience library is available as
a separate product.
* C code generation.
Code generated by Architect includes calls to its convenience library.
However, you can generate portable Xt/Xm code using HP's Motif Code
Generator (MotifGen). The MotifGen utility is added by HP, and is
not currently available from Visual Edge or with other vendors'
versions of UIM/X.
* No run-time licensing requirements for applications built with HP Architect.
* Online help (accessed via the HP VUE Help Manager), including:
* Task reference.
* Technical reference.
* HP quality documentation:
* Quick Start -- 40-page hands-on tutorial.
* Developer's Guide -- 350-page, three-part guide, including:
* Using HP Architect.
* HP Architect Concepts and Techniques.
* HP Architect Reference.
HP Interface Architect is currently available on HP 9000 Series 300, 400, and
800 workstations running HP-UX 7.0 or later.
- Dex Smith, Learning Products Developer
Interface Technology Operation
Hewlett-Packard Company
Corvallis, Oregon USA
dex@hpcvlx.hp.com