mcohen@darlene.mit.EDU (Michael Cohen) (08/19/87)
Hi: I'm working at Bellcore, developing a hypermedia system on top of Kyoto Common Lisp, Suns, and X. I'm told that the toolkit is the "library of choice", but I've been frustrated by the lack of documentation. I have the 7 chapter toolkit library and widget documentation, but it's hard to use: the subroutine parameters are only sketchily defined, and instructions about how to combine the invocations are rare. Is there any other documentation I can get? Some sample programs that illustrate the use of the toolkit (besides xterm)? Or even an update to the stuff I have, dated June 3, 1987? I've found some typos in this document, btw, that I'm happy to pass along to whomever wants them. Any documents or pointers would be appreciated. If there isn't anything else, may I address some widget questions (some of which are probably fairly basic) to this address? Note: don't use the reply address to this message. Send instead to mcohen@thumper.bellcore.com since darlene isn't registered. Tx. Michael Cohen BBNCC University of Washington Bell Communications Research
haynes@DECWRL.DEC.COM (08/19/87)
The X11 toolkit coming out in September has better documentation. I thoroughly sympathize with your frustrations. What I'd suggest doing is, first skim the documentation, second, look at the sources for some toolkit applications (I don't know which ones you have available), third, look at the toolkit sources. Questions or comments on the toolkit should be addressed to xpert (unless/until there's a list of it's own). Bug reports should go to toddb at mit, they will get forwarded to us. (Oh, yeah, I'm the person responsible for the intrinsics, and the original implementation of some of the widgets, our group here generally handles toolkit stuff.) I'll see about prying loose some of our (rough) internal documents and sending them to the list. The problem is that some are out of date, some are badly written, and there just aren't very many of them at all... We're working on improving the documentation. Donations of time and expertise freely accepted... -- Charles