rick@hanauma (Richard Ottolini) (08/06/89)
The Motif interface generator sounds similar to DEC Windows User Interface Language (UIL). They generate procedural code from a declarative description. No sign of such I've seen so far. However, XView is so close to SunView that the commercial SunView CASE tools should be easily adapted to XView. One of this year's Sun technical notes (May?) describes XView. I prefer to the other Xt-based systems I've used because it doesn't require the tedious Initialize-Realize-Manage calls.
david@ics.COM (David B. Lewis) (08/07/89)
In article <4286@portia.Stanford.EDU>, rick@hanauma (Richard Ottolini) writes: > The Motif interface generator sounds similar to DEC Windows User Interface > Language (UIL). They generate procedural code from a declarative description. > No sign of such I've seen so far. However, XView is so close to SunView > that the commercial SunView CASE tools should be easily adapted to XView. > One of this year's Sun technical notes (May?) describes XView. The Motif User Interface Language is based on Digital's UIL, and much of the work is being done by Digital. The OSF line is that converting from DECwindows UIL to Motif UIL is about 95% global search-and-replace; Digital had been pushing UIL as the best migration from Ultrix-based DECwindows to Motif. Sun was demonstrating at Xhibition a point-and-click interface builder that eventually produced XView code. I'm not sure whether or not there is an intermediary form that would be manipulable; that is, there is undoubtedly some mechanism to read back in an interface under construction, but I can't be sure that it's human-readable or that it would serve as a good layout language. -- David B. Lewis david@ics.com ics!david@buita.bu.edu david%ics.UUCP@buita.bu.edu "An organization designing a system will produce a copy of its own communication structure." - Melvin Conway