rudolf@oce.orst.edu (Jim Rudolf) (06/15/89)
I'm still quite the NeWS novice, but I'm getting frustrated by the
trouble I'm having with some basic things in NeWS. That frustration
is compounded when I watch a friend do the same things with less
effort in NextStep.
For example, I'd like to make the equivalent of a SunView cmdtool window.
I'm using an instance of class ScrollWindow, but putting text in there
and scrolling it isn't trivial (from this novice's perspective, anyway).
Kinda reminds me of the Mac Toolbox :-). And as I mentioned, it isn't
too tough to create scrolling text windows in NextStep.
Is it unfair for me to compare NeWS to NextStep this way? I know the
lite*.ps files were never meant to be a fully functional toolkit. Will
there be a commercially available toolkit in the future, like with the
NeWS/X.11 system?
This isn't meant to be a flame on NeWS. I happen to think it is pretty
slick. I guess I expected to have some of the common functions already
available so I could work at a higher level when I didn't need something
out of the ordinary.
Comments/suggestions/criticisms welcomed,
-- Jim Rudolf
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