thomps@inmet.inmet.com (08/01/90)
What is the story with using the X widget library that comes with DecWindows? An application which we wish to develop will require the Athena widget set on VMS. Question 1: On what version of X11 is the DecWindows stuff based? Question 2: Has someone ported the Xaw libraries from the X11R[3|4] distribution to VMS? If not, is this feasible? Question 3: Is there another approach? E.g., is there something under DecWindows that gets us the identical Athena widget functionality or a product in the marketplace that provides this? Thanks, John Thompson (thomps@inmet.inmet.com) (uunet!inmet!thomps)
murphy@ufp.dco.dec.com (Rick Murphy) (08/02/90)
In article <37200001@inmet>, thomps@inmet.inmet.com writes: > Question 1: On what version of X11 is the DecWindows stuff > based? X11R3. > Question 2: Has someone ported the Xaw libraries from > the X11R[3|4] distribution to VMS? If not, > is this feasible? Yes. Trevor Porter (I think..) ported them and put the distribution in DECUS. You could probably post in comp.os.vms to ask if it's available via other means. > Question 3: Is there another approach? E.g., is there > something under DecWindows that gets us the > identical Athena widget functionality or a product > in the marketplace that provides this? It's not likely - given that it took all of two days work to port the Athena widgets to VMS, why write your own? Of course, the alternative is to port to the XUI or Motif widget sets - Motif would give you the widest range of platforms. -Rick Rick Murphy, WA1SPT/4 Digital Customer Center, Landover, MD Domain: murphy@ufp.dco.dec.com -or- murphy@ufp.enet.dec.com Bang: decwrl!ufp.enet!murphy Ding: (301) 306-2985 Disclaimer: This nonsense came from an AI program written in TECO. Ignore it.