ramani@modesty.Stanford.EDU (Ramani Pichumani) (10/06/89)
I am currently in the process of searching for a application level toolkit for X11 on the Iris 4D. The software we are writing is intended to be used by surgeons who know very little about computers and want to know even less. The software is very complex but the user interface must be kept as simple as possible. For instance, a three button mouse is considered to be too complicated for our users so we have to define all the mouse buttons to be functionally identical. We would like to get a user interface (UI) toolkit that will be as easy to use as those found on the MacIntosh or Next computers. I have found the UI objects in ForeSight to be too buggy, hard to debug and unsupported. Also, the cps packet communication scheme proved to be hard to incorporate into our object models in Lisp. I found the XView toolkit from Sun to fit my requirements very nicely. Unfortunately, XView is only supported on Sun machines and is only intended to be ported to BSD machines or System V Release 4 (SVR4) machines. That leaves me in the position of trying to port XView to the Iris 4D or find an existing toolkit for our application. If anyone out there knows of a X11 UI toolkit to meet our requirements, please let me know. Hopefully I'll get enough replies to summarize them on the net. Thanks in advance, Ramani Pichumani Tel: (415) 723-2902 or 723-2437 Department of Computer Science Fax: (415) 725-7411 Margaret Jacks Hall, Room 308 email: ramani@patience.stanford.edu Stanford, CA 94305 USA uunet!patience.stanford.edu!ramani
root@dillo.wpd.sgi.com (0000-Admin(0000)) (10/07/89)
tape. It provides an interface very similar to a MacIntosh's, which sounds like what you have in mind. We had no major problems in making it work locally. bruce a. campbell baruch@sgi.com