Tim_Buxton@UM.CC.UMICH.EDU (07/03/90)
We need a good, high level, menu painting program or library, and we need it for X-Windows, since that is the direction the IRIS user interface is headed (right?). I know that menus have been discussed lately, but the solutions have been of still a low-level, programming intensive nature, and not X rated. We have investigated Xpressions as listed in the Geometry Partners directory, but would like other possibilities. This is something we and thousands like us would readily pay for, third party and SGI folks. Could you address the following? 1. What X menu painting packages, on the order of Tool Book for Windows 3, are available for SGI machines now? What experiences have people had with them? 2. What packages (Motif, etc.) are Soon to Come, and When? 3. What are the costs for the above? By the way, I think that WorkSpace is a very good start toward a Really Nice user interface. It is intuitive, clean-looking and capable, but not very easy to set up a user interface with yet. Thank you for any comments you may have directed to the net, or to me directly. -Tim Buxton OptiMetrics, Inc. Tim_Buxton@um.cc.umich.edu