petree@gamera.cs.utexas.edu (Mitch Petree) (07/08/88)
Would someone please define and tell me the relationship between the following: xaw, andrew toolkit, intrinsics, xtk, x toolkit, athena widgets, andrew widgets. Also, what are all the types of machines and operating systems X runs on? -Mitch Petree
diamant@hpfclp.SDE.HP.COM (John Diamant) (07/12/88)
> Would someone please define and tell me the relationship between the > following: > intrinsics, xtk, x toolkit, I believe these all refer to the same thing. The official name is Xt Intrinsics, and it is a toolkit for X based on an object-oriented paradigm (widgets are objects, but in C). > xaw, athena widgets Athena widgets and libXaw are identical as well. These are the widget set from the MIT Athena project (as distinct from the HP X Widgets, DEC Widgets and so on). They are for use with Xt Intrinsics. > andrew toolkit, A toolkit which has been ported to X using the concept of an inset, which is something like a widget, but allows for dynamic loading and animation. Andrew is a project based at CMU which was invented before X became popular and they have a portability layer allowing them to port to X as the underlying window system (I think they started out under Sun Windows). > andrew widgets. As far as I know, there are no such thing -- there are Andrew insets, though. > Also, what are all the types of machines and operating systems X runs on? Lots of machines run X. Many are Unix based, and I'm not going to attempt a list here. John Diamant Software Development Environments Hewlett-Packard Co. ARPA Internet: diamant@hpfclp.sde.hp.com Fort Collins, CO UUCP: {hplabs,hpfcla}!hpfclp!diamant