tmcclory@gomer.wright.edu (Tom McClory) (01/12/90)
Would some knowledgeable person mind helping me understand what the new
X11 release 4 means to me in my initial explorations of the X windowing
system? I've seen several messages posted over the last few days
that look like they affect me, but I'm too much a novice to interpret
them.
I have two concerns:
1) My current project is to gain some mastery of one of the X
toolkits. To that end I've purchased Doug Young's book,
"X Window Systems Programming and Applications with Xt."
Judging from some of the postings over the past few days, the HP
widget set used in Mr. Young's examples goes away in release 4.
Is this true, and what, if anything can I do to compensate?
2) Once I've gained some experience using at least one of the
X toolkits, my first real application of X will require using
the Ada Bindings to X. What, if any, affect will the new X release
have on my ability to use the Ada bindings? I understand
the Ada bindings use the Xr toolkit.
Thanks in advance. I would really appreciate the help.
Tom McClory tmcclory@wright.edu
Wright State Univ.rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler) (01/13/90)
Judging from some of the postings over the past few days, the HP
widget set used in Mr. Young's examples goes away in release 4.
No, you will find a version in contrib/toolkits/Xw.
What, if any, affect will the new X release
have on my ability to use the Ada bindings? I understand
the Ada bindings use the Xr toolkit.
I am not familiar with Ada bindings, but the Xr toolkit is not included
in R4, so if you want to use it, retain your R3 version.