CHIS@PTEARN.BITNET (Ana Violante) (10/26/89)
Hi,
and Hi again,
i didn't receive the answer:
'I can solve your problem!!!'
but it was good to know more people asking the same.
( Godi, godi!...I'm not alone.....)
'When'...when ... some clue appears
i'll share it with you ....
And once more:
Does anybody know anything about X Toolkits running
with VMS?
Thank you!
Everything is welcome.
Ana
Chis at PTearn
Chis at PTifmklee@chico.pa.dec.com (Ken Lee) (10/26/89)
In article <8910252006.AA22150@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>, CHIS@PTEARN.BITNET (Ana Violante) writes: > Does anybody know anything about X Toolkits running > with VMS? DECwindows runs on VMS. It supports the X Toolkit intrinsics and XUI widget set. Various organizations have announced that the Motif widget set will be ported to VMS, but I don't have any schedules. Ken Lee DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif. Internet: klee@decwrl.dec.com uucp: uunet!decwrl!klee
herbert@gr8ful.enet.dec.com (Kevin Paul Herbert) (10/27/89)
What widget set are you interested in? Porting many of the Athena widgets to VMS is quite straight-forward. Since the intrinsics are basically the same, the only things you have to deal with (generally) are differences having to do with .h file location, and bcopy() vs memcpy(). Kevin
marbru@auto-trol.UUCP (Martin Brunecky) (10/27/89)
In article <8910252006.AA22150@ATHENA.MIT.EDU> CHIS@PTEARN.BITNET (Ana Violante) writes: > > And once more: > Does anybody know anything about X Toolkits running > with VMS? > As you probbably know, with VMS you now get DECWindows (for free on any workstation). This includes Xlib, Xtoolkit ( with DECW 1.0 something close to R3, but not quite the same ), and the XUI widget set. Plus couple applications (but not the things you are used to see on MIT tape or Unix systems). Pretty soon there will be DECWINDOWS 2.0, with some enhancements, but I believe basically the same thing. Now, the next thing that can run on VMS is Motif. You can get source license from OSF, and try to do the port yourself. I did it in less than a week, but it assumes you know alot about what is going on (by the way, it's nice). OR you can wait a while - Digital HAS IT NOW - that is DEC has a running port of Motif to VMS, but as usually, customer can get it .... SOON. Last thing I'v been told is "Wait for a major announcement". Once beyond that, you can take basically any Xt based toolkit (i.e. Athena Widget set, or HP widgets), and make them run on VMS. You can use DECwindows Intrinsics (but there are some gotchas), and the rest is just getting around the VAX C comopiler obscurities [ here I mean globaldef/globalref instead of extern ]. Since none of those widget sets are "production quality", you will have to learn something about widgets fixing anyway. -- ############################################################################### Martin Brunecky, Auto-trol Technology Corporation, 12500 North Washington Street, Denver, CO-80241-2404 (303) 252-2499 ncar!ico!auto-trol!marbru