edlz@cbnewsm.att.com (edward.s.gokhman) (11/07/90)
1) Does anyone have tried GUIDE from Sun ? What other similar packages for OPEN LOOK are available including public domain ? Suggestions? 2) Would you recommend inexpensive text and simple charts editor allowing for import of more complex postscript drawings? Anything in public domain? (Must be better then troff and pic. Is there xcip equivalent for Sparc1 - it would be acceptable). Thanx. Respond directly to att!sodium!esg. Ed Gokhman
fgreco@dprg-330.GOVt.shearson.COM (Frank Greco) (11/08/90)
> > 1) Does anyone have tried GUIDE from Sun ? What other similar packages for > OPEN LOOK are available including public domain ? Suggestions? We use devGUIDE here quite a bit. We're quite happy with it. The only other OL GUI builder that I know of is the Exocode beast (for XView), which I looked into some time ago and dropped because they did not have an evaluation policy. The devGUIDE approach of producing an API-independent specification file (the GIL file) seems to be the smart way to go. You can develop OL apps with UI's developed with devGUIDE that use XView (C and C++), Sun's Lisp, OLIT or TNT (the NeWS Toolkit). > > 2) Would you recommend inexpensive text and simple charts editor > allowing for import of more complex postscript drawings? Anything > in public domain? (Must be better then troff and pic. Is there > xcip equivalent for Sparc1 - it would be acceptable). If you are Postscript, I'd suggest you look into X/NeWS. It speaks Postscript quite naturally. Frank G.
david@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (David E. Smyth) (11/09/90)
>> 1) Does anyone have tried GUIDE from Sun ? What other similar packages for >> OPEN LOOK are available including public domain ? Suggestions? > > We use devGUIDE here quite a bit. We're quite happy with it. > The only other OL GUI builder that I know of is the Exocode beast > (for XView)... Try Dirt which is in contrib on expo. It assumes Xt based Widgets, so OLIT should be no problem. Dirt generates resource files which can be read by applications linked with Wcl, the Widget Creation Library. Several people are using Wcl and OLIT.