schmid@asterix.luftfahrt.uni-stuttgart.de (Georg Schmid) (08/08/90)
This question for sure has been asked for previously, but: Is there any documentation for the c++/X11 class library InterViews ? Of course I have the man pages, but I'm looking for some kind of 'Programming Manual', not a Reference Manual. I couldn't find anything appropriate on 'interviews.stanford.edu' Please answer by mail (thanks in advance). ________________________________________________________________________ Georg Schmid, ISD University of Stuttgart, W.-Germany email: schmid@asterix.luftfahrt.uni-stuttgart.de (129.69.110.2) voice: +49 711-685-2053 fax: +49 711-685-3706 ________________________________________________________________________
schmid@asterix.luftfahrt.uni-stuttgart.de (Georg Schmid) (08/13/90)
The following is a summary of answers to my request for an InterViews ``Programming Manual''. I received numerous mails, in general saying ``I don't believe that there is much more documentation than the man-pages, but please let me know the results of your request ''. So here it is: hrp@pecan.cray.com (Hal Peterson) writes: > I have three sources of information on InterViews: first is the > ``Reference Manual'', which includes the man pages plus some release > notes, and which you already have; the second is a set of four papers > from the "src/doc" subdirectory of the distribution, described thusly > in the accompanying README file: > > File Document Title > ----------------------------------------- > composing.ps.Z Composing User Interfaces with InterViews > (Computer, Feb. '89) > graphic.ps.Z Applying Object-Oriented Design to Structured > Graphics > (C++ Conference Proceedings, 1988) > toolkit.ps.Z InterViews: A C++ Graphical Interface Toolkit > (C++ Workshop Proceedings, 1987) > blurb.ps.Z one-page InterViews description > > All the files are compressed PostScript. > > The third source of InterViews information is interactive: it is the > InterViews mailing list, which one may join by sending mail to > interviews-request@interviews.stanford.edu. It's well worth it. > -- > Hal Peterson Domain: hrp@cray.com mead!nxh@uccba.uc.edu (Nobuya "Higgy" Higashiyama) writes: > Sorry, I haven't found anything either. There are three papers written by the > Stanford team which may be helpful. > > Mark A. Linton, Paul R. Calder, and John M. Vlissides. InterViews: A > C++ Graphical Interface Toolkit. > > John M. Vlissides and Mark A. Linton. Applyiying Object-Oriented > Design to Structured Graphics. > > Mark A. Linton, John M. Vlissides, and Paul R. Calder. Composing > User Interfaces with InterViews. > > I learned InterViews by looking at sample programs supplied with the software > distribution. Right now I'm working on a project which is composed of about > 10,000 lines of C++ using InterViews. At my compnay, information about > InterViews is passed from person to person -- not an ideal situation. The papers mentioned above are available by anonymous ftp from interviews.stanford.edu in ~ftp/pub/doc (compressed ps). As a conclusion my 0.02 D-Mark opinion: I think InterViews is a great idea, and it's obviously the only free X11 class library, but it's a pity that there isn't a better documentation. For me as an InterViews beginner it's pretty hard to learn how to do it by studying examples, facing all these classes, subclasses and overloaded functions. Perhaps it's just a lack of personal genius that I don't understand these examples (unless spending some weeks and covering my screen with man-pages to find out about the relations). ________________________________________________________________________ _ Georg Schmid, ISD University of Stuttgart, W.-Germany email: schmid@asterix.luftfahrt.uni-stuttgart.de (129.69.110.2) voice: +49 711-685-2053 fax: +49 711-685-3706 ________________________________________________________________________ _ (At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer. -- Marshall Lumsden)