edmark@ISI.COM (Ron O. Edmark) (11/21/90)
For those who are interested we will be holding a Motif developers meeting
November 28 at 7:00 pm. This meeting will be held at NCD (339 North Bernardo).
Thanks again to Ron Guilmette and NCD for letting us use their facilities.
The agenda:
Name Subject Company
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7:00-7:15 Ron Guilmette C++ Standards NCD
7:15-8:00 Kam Tsang C++ and Motif ISI
& Ron Edmark
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| Ron Edmark User Interface Group |
| Tel: (408) 980-1500 x282 Integrated Systems, Inc. |
| Internet: edmark@isi.com 2500 Mission College Blvd. |
| Voice mail: (408) 980-1590 x282 Santa Clara, CA 94054 |
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The Motif Developers Group (S.F. Bay Area) will have our next meeting June 7,
7:00 pm. at Xhibition 91. Check at Xhibition for exact location.
Our very special guest will be OSF. They will be here to discuss different
topics related to Motif and answer our questions. During the meeting we will
be breaking down into small groups for specific discussions (i.e. subclassing,
window manager, file selection box ...). If you have a specific topic for
discussion please let me know.
OSF has sent along a questionnaire they would like us to fill out (see below).
After you have completed the questionnaire please email it back to me
(edmark@isi.com) and I forward them to OSF.
Due to the limited amount of time (and what could be a large number of questions
for OSF) I think it would be best to submit your questions to OSF before the
meeting. You can attach your questions to the bottom of your questionnaire.
The cut-off date for returning your questionnaire to me is May 17.
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About This Questionnaire
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This questionnaire was developed by OSF, at the direction of its membership,
to gather information about the requirements of the Motif development and
user communities.
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New Technologies
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How important are the following areas to your organization's technology plans?
Don't Know/No Plans 0
1
Not important 2
3
4
Moderately important 5
6
7
Very important 8
9
Style
___Look & Feel compatibility with Presentation Manager
___Look & Feel compatibility with Windows
Internationalization
___Internationalization based on Locale
___Multilingual applications
___Support for Unicode
___Support for ISO10646
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Desktop Management
___Workspace Management (ability to switch between groups of windows)
___Session Management (ability to save and restore sessions)
___Graphical Shells (user interface to shell functionality, including
viewing and modifying directories, launching and controlling
applications)
Interchange
___Drag and Drop
___Standard interchange formats (e.g. for formatted text, graphics,
structured graphics, images, animation, music, video, spreadsheets,
compound documents, etc.)
___Interchange between Motif and Macintosh/Windows/PM applications
___Hypertext and Hypermedia links
___Links & Embedded Objects (with support for a program [or server]
managing a subview within the view displayed by another program)
___Dynamic Data Exchange (support for automatically allowing changes
in one application's data to affect another application's view)
___Agents (asynchonously executed cross-application scripts)
___Journalling (recording scripts of user actions)
CASE for User Interfaces using
___Interactive Design Tools used to prototype applications
___Support for Interactive Structured Graphics (e.g. like Unidraw
in the Interviews environment)
___Dialogue languages
___Layout description languages supporting constraints
___Style guide conformance using expert systems
Motif Evolution
___Formatted text widget
___Tear-off menus
___Drop-down list
___Tables / spreadsheets widget
___Multiple sheet propety sheet widget
___Rearchitecting Motif using an Object-Oriented Language
Other requirements (please describe):
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Definitions and additional information. Please describe the way YOU defined
any of the above, if you feel your interpretation needs clarification. Please
also list any other information about your requirements.
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Extensibility requirements
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For each Motif component, please check all that apply.
( ) Have already subclassed own widgets from this class.
( ) Plan to subclass our own widgets from this class, need documentation.
( ) OSF should provide subclasses of this widget (please define).
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( ) ( ) ( ) XmGadget
( ) ( ) ( ) XmPrimitive
( ) ( ) ( ) XmManager
( ) ( ) ( ) XmDrawingArea
( ) ( ) ( ) XmPanedWindow
( ) ( ) ( ) XmRowColumn
( ) ( ) ( ) XmScale
( ) ( ) ( ) XmScrolledWindow
( ) ( ) ( ) XmMainWindow
( ) ( ) ( ) XmBulletinBoard
( ) ( ) ( ) XmForm
( ) ( ) ( ) XmMessageBox
( ) ( ) ( ) XmSelectionBox
( ) ( ) ( ) XmCommand
( ) ( ) ( ) XmFileSelectionBox
( ) ( ) ( ) XmPrompt
( ) ( ) ( ) XmArrowButton
( ) ( ) ( ) XmList
( ) ( ) ( ) XmScrollBar
( ) ( ) ( ) XmSeparator
( ) ( ) ( ) XmText
( ) ( ) ( ) XmTextField
( ) ( ) ( ) XmLabel
( ) ( ) ( ) XmCascadeButton
( ) ( ) ( ) XmDrawnButton
( ) ( ) ( ) XmPushButton
( ) ( ) ( ) XmToggleButton
( ) ( ) ( ) XmArrowButtonGadget
( ) ( ) ( ) XmSeparatorGadget
( ) ( ) ( ) XmLabelGadget
( ) ( ) ( ) XmCascadeButtonGadget
( ) ( ) ( ) XmPushButtonGadget
( ) ( ) ( ) XmToggleButtonGadget
Others (please identify)
( ) ( ) ( )
( ) ( ) ( )
( ) ( ) ( )
( ) ( ) ( )
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Backward Compatability
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Which of the following kinds of backward compatability is a requirement for
your organization:
( ) Link-time compatibility for all Motif AES functions
( ) Link-time compatibility for all Motif Reference manual functions
( ) Link-time compatibility for all Motif functions (including internals)
( ) Run-time compatability (i.e, behavior, geometry management, compatible)
( ) Source-code compatible
Are you using or supporting Motif on platforms which use shared libraries?
( ) Yes ( ) No
Which ones?
Does your organization use uil to build its products?
( ) Yes ( ) No
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Some Questions About You
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Your position in the organization:
( ) Engineer/member of the technical staff
( ) Technical manager
( ) Non-technical manager
( ) Director or executive
( ) Independent consultant
( ) One-man-band
( ) Other:
The type of product(s) your organization produces (check all that apply):
( ) We are vendors of Motif on our hardware platforms.
( ) We are vendors of Motif on multiple vendors' hardware platforms.
( ) We produce Motif applications for in-house use.
( ) We produce Motif applications for sale.
( ) We produce IDTs based on Motif.
( ) We produce ________________________ based on Motif.
( ) We are considering using Motif but do not currently.
( ) Other:
Can you tell us more about your product?
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Care to elaborate?
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Anything else you'd like to say?
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| Ron Edmark User Interface Group |
| Tel: (408) 980-1500 x282 Integrated Systems, Inc. |
| Internet: edmark@isi.com 3260 Jay St. |
| Voice mail: (408) 980-1590 x282 Santa Clara, CA 94054 |
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