elf@acapulco.Berkeley.EDU (Marc Singer) (01/27/88)
Does anyone have any (brief) opinions about the toolkit(s) avaliable under X-Windows for implementing buttons, toggles, editable text windows, and other such useful devices? I have spent about a week writing a few of them myself with impressively robust and rapid results; however, I'd rather not write an entire layer of user interface code for the sake of one project. For comparison, I have programmed both Microsoft Windows and Sapphire (Carnegie-Mellon's SPICE project) with distaste because the amount of work to bring up a mock version usually accounted for 20% of the total project's effort. Ok. That is an exaggeration, but it is fair to place X-Windows in a category beyond those other environments. So, any ideas or pointers to RFC's about toolkits?
haynes@DECWRL.DEC.COM (02/02/88)
Check out the Xtk toolkit, part of the release tape. It's more of a layer to make writing buttons, toggles, text windows,etc, in such a way that they all play well together. There are some "sample" widgets on the tape, a complete set is planned for X11R2. -- Charles