sje@bubba.ma30.bull.com (Steven J. Edwards) (01/30/91)
Greetings, Fellow News Readers:
I have some questions about X Windows and Motif version
capability and compatability. I am currently running SCO Unix System
V/386 Release 3.2 with the mwm (Motif Window Manager) under X Windows
X11R3.
Question 1: How does one exactly determine which version of
mwm is running? According to the Motif manual, the XmVersion macro
(found in Xm.h) gives the version (mine says 1000, I assume that this
is to be divided by 1000 giving 1.000); is this macro/method always
going to be correct?
Question 2: How does one exactly determine which version of X
is running? According to the X manual, the XtVersion macro (found in
IntrinsicP.h) gives the version (mine says 11003, I assume that this
is to be divided by 1000 giving 11.003); is this macro/method always
going to be correct?
Question 3: What is the latest version of Motif? I have heard
that it was 1.001, but I don't know of a source for confirmation.
What dependencies does it have versus version 1.000, particularly with
respect to X Windows X11R3 and X11R4?
Question 4: Briefly, what is the status/availability of X11R4?
What types of problems would one expect to encounter when porting a
development environment from Motif 1.000/X11R3 to the latest version?
E-mail responses to the above would be fine, although I would
think that other newcomers might also benefit from answers or sources
for answers posted here in the news.
Many, many thanks in advance. By the way, this is my VERY
FIRST news post, so if there is anything wrong with formatting,
headers, etc., let me know and I'll fix it.
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